Egypt + Twitter resources

The following online resources were submitted by your colleagues for this assignment.  Please note that all of these URLs were last consulted on 10 April 2011.

“Giving a voice to the turmoil in the Middle East via Twitter.” Memeburn, 28 Mar. 2011. Web. http://memeburn.com/2011/03/giving-a-voice-to-the-turmoil-in-the-middle-east-via-twitter/

“Egyptian Army Signals Mubarak Resignation As Democratic Protests Overturn 30 Year DictatorshipM.” Mind-Changing Politics. 11 Feb. 2011. Web. http://mindchanging.com/politics/2011/02/10/egyptian-army-signals-mubarak-resignation-as-democratic-protests-overturn-30-year-dictatorship/

Abbas, Milani. “A Note of Warning and Encouragement for Egyptians.” The New Republic website. http://www.tnr.com/article/world/82450/egypt-riots-iranian-revolution-1979

Alexander, Anne.  “Internet Role in Egypt’s Protests.” BBC. 9 Feb 2011.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12400319

Banks, Emily. “Egyptian president steps down amidst groundbreaking digital revolution.” CNN.com.  11 Feb. 2011. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-11/tech/egyptian.president.digital.mashable_1_social-media-cnn-moment-english-language-network?_s=PM:TECH

Cohen, Noam. “Egyptians Were Unplugged, Uncowed.” New York Times.  20 Feb. 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/business/media/21link.html?ref=egypt

Cook, D. “Why John McCain used Twitter to take on Hosni Mubarak.” The Christian Science Monitor. 6 April 2011. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2011/0406/Why-John-McCain-used-Twitter-to-take-on-Hosni-Mubarak-video

Conway, Evan. “How Wired Are Egyptians?” PBS News Hour blog. PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, 31 Jan.
2011. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/01/how-wired-are-egyptians.html

Cowie, James. “Egypt Leaves the Internet”. Renesys.com. 27 Jan 2011. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

Crovitz, L. Gordon. “Egypt’s Revolution by Social Media”. Wall Street Journal Online 14 Feb. 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703786804576137980252177072.html

Fielding, Nick & Ian Cobain. “Revealed: US Spy Operation that Targets Social Media”. Guardian.co.uk 17 March 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks?INTCMP=SRCH

Fisher, William. “Egypt’s Army Being Severely Tested: Can Brutal Old Habits Be Unlearned?” The Public Record. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. http://pubrecord.org/world/9167/egypts-being-severely-tested-brutal/

Gallagher, Ian.  “Egyptian police use Facebook and Twitter to track down protesters’ names before ’rounding them up.’ Daily Mail. 6 Feb. 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354096/Egypt-protests-Police-use-Facebook-Twitter-track-protesters.html

Gladwell, Malcolm. Does Egypt Need Twitter? The New Yorker. 2 Feb 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/does-egypt-need-twitter.html

Gaudin, Sharon. “Social Networks Credited with Role in Toppling Egypt’s Mubarak.” Computer World 11 February 2011.  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209159/Social_networks_credited_with_role_in_toppling_Egypt_s_Mubarak

Gustin, Sam. “Social Media Sparked, Accelerated Egypt’s Revolutionary Fire.” Wired.com. 11 Feb. 2011. Web. 10 Apr. 2011.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/

Hartley-Parkinson, Richard. “Baby Named ‘Facebook’ in Honour of the Social Network after Egypt’s Revolution | Mail Online.” Mail Online. 21 Feb. 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358876/Baby-named-Facebook-honour-social-network-Egypts-revolution.html

Heaven, Will.  “Mubarak steps down. But let’s be clear – Twitter had nothing to do with it.” The Telegraph. 11 Feb. 2011. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100075775/mubarak-steps-down-but-lets-be-clear-twitter-had-nothing-to-do-with-it/

Herrera, L.  “Egypt’s Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor.”  Jadaliyya. 12 Feb. 2011.  http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/612/egypts-revolution-2.0_the-facebook-factor

Hudson, John. “The ‘Twitter Revolution’ Debate: The Egyptian Test Case – Global.” The Atlantic Wire. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/01/the-twitter-revolution-debate-the-egyptian-test-case/21296/

Ibrahim, M.  (2009). Peeling the onion: The case of the Information Technology Club  project in Egypt. Dissertation.

Jarvis, Jeff. “Facebook, Twitter, and the Egyptian Revolution « Media and Tech.” The Faster Times. 13 Feb. 2011. http://thefastertimes.com/mediaandtech/2011/02/13/facebook-twitter-and-the-egyptian-revolution/

Kessler, Sarah. “Twitter Blocked in Egypt As Protests Turn Violent.” Mashable. 25 Jan 2011. http://mashable.com/2011/01/25/twitter-blocked-in-egypt/

Kirkpatrick, David D. “Egypt Erupts in Jubilation as Mubarak Steps Down.” New York Times. 11 Feb 2011.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Kravets, David.  “What’s Fueling Mideast Protests?  It’s More Than Twitter.”  Wired Magazine. 27 Jan. 2011. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/social-media-oppression/

Mackey, Robert. “Video Shows Deadly Raid on Cairo’s Tahir Square.” New York Times: The Lede Blog.  9 April 2011. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/video-shows-deadly-raid-on-cairos-tahrir-square/?partner=rss&emc=rss

McCarthy, Caroline. “Egypt, Twitter, and the rise of the watchdog crowd.” CNet. 11 Feb 2011. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20031600-36.html

McLaughlin, Andrew. “Egypt’s Big Internet Disconnect.” The Guardian Online. 31 Jan. 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/31/egypt-internet-uncensored-cutoff-disconnect

Morrison, Thomas. “The Powerful Effects of Social Media in Egypt.” Social Media Optimization. 21 Feb 2011 http://social-media-optimization.com/2011/02/the-powerful-effects-of-social-media-in-egypt/

Michael, Maggie, and Lee Keath. “‘Egypt Is Free’ Chants Tahrir after Mubarak Quits – Yahoo! News.” Yahoo! News. 11 Feb. 2011. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt

Naib, Fatima. “Online Activism Fuels Egypt Protest – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.” AJE – Al Jazeera English. 28 Jan. 2011. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128102253848730.html

Naughton, John.  “How Twitter Engineers Outwitted Mubarak in One Weekend.”  The Guardian.  6 Feb. 2011  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/06/twitter-speak-tweet-mubarak-networker

O’Dell, Jolie. “How Egyptians Used Twitter During the January Crisis.” Mashable. February 1, 2011. http://mashable.com/2011/02/01/egypt-twitter-infographic/

Olivarez-Giles, Nathan. “Noor Group, Egypt’s Last Internet Service Provider, Shuts down” Los Angeles Times.  31 Jan. 2011.  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/egypts-last-internet-service-provider-goes-down-internet-completely-off.html

Olson, Geoff. “From McLuhan to Mubarak « McLuhan Galaxy.” McLuhan Galaxy. 27 Feb. 2011. http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/from-mcluhan-to-mubarak/

Oreskovic, Alexei. “Google launches Twitter workaround for Egypt.” Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 01 Feb 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-egypt-protest-google-idUSTRE71005F20110201

Sifry, Micah L.. “Did Facebook bring down Mubarak?” CNN.com  11 Feb. 2011. http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/11/sifry.egypt.technology/index.html?iref=allsearch

Snider, Laura. “Q&A: Gigi Ibrahim on ‘Inside the Egyptian Revolution’ Panel at CWA ”  Daily Camera Online. 6 Apr. 2011. http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_17786685

Sutter, John D. “The Faces of Egypt’s ‘Revolution 2.0′” CNN.com. 21 Feb. 2011http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/21/egypt.internet.revolution/index.html

Warschauer, M. (2003). Dissecting the “Digital Divide”: A Case Study in Egypt. The Information Society, 19(4), 297-304.

Williams, Christopher. “How Egypt shutdown the internet.” The Telegraph. Jan. 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8288163/How-Egypt-shut-down-the-internet.html

Wheeler, Deborah. “Empowering Publics: Information Technology and Democratization in the Arab World-Lessons from Internet Cafe’s and Beyond.” OII Research Report No. 11. 1 July 2006. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1308527

Woods, Andrew K. “These Revolutions Are Not All Twitter.” NY Times. 1 Feb. 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/opinion/02iht-edwoods02.htm

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