This book provides an insightful and comprehensive look at the
issues regarding the use of the Internet and social media by
activists in more than 30 countries—and how many governments in
these countries are trying to blunt these efforts to promote
freedom. The innovators who created social media might never have
imagined the possibility: that activists living in countries where
oppressive conditions are the norm would use social media to call
for changes to bring greater freedom, opportunity, and justice to
the masses. The attributes of social media that make it so powerful
for casual socializing—the ability to connect with nearly
limitless numbers of like-minded individuals
instantaneously—enables political activists to recruit,
communicate, and organize like never before. This book examines
three aspects of the use of social media for political activism:
the degrees of media freedom practiced in countries around the
world; the methods by which governments attempt to block access to
information; and the various ways in which activists use the
media—especially social media—to advance their cause of greater
freedoms. Readers will learn how these political uprisings came
from the grassroots efforts of oppressed and unhappy citizens
desperate to make better lives for themselves and others like
them—and how the digital age is allowing them to protest and call
attention to their plights in unprecedented ways.
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