Lessons from North Africa
The Dynamics of Displacement
- Author
- Dennis Smith Loughborough University
The North African Uprisings
The wave of revolutionary uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, from Morocco to Bahrain – demanding liberation, democracy and the right and means to live a full life – has been watched throughout the world. Cyberspace and new information technology have played a key political role. Cell phones and laptop computers helped protestors to organise and also sent vivid depictions of mass resistance to a global audience. They provided vital guidance for the international media that dispatched their men, women and cameras to the region as soon as they were convinced that this was a ‘big story.’
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