لا يخفى عليكم أن موضوع الساعة هو الفايسبوك والثورات العربية, فحاولت ان اكتب موضوعا انشائيا في هدا الصدد و انا ارشحه ان يكون هو موضوع الانشاء للباك كما استغرقت وقتا طويلا شيءا ما بحكم انني في الاولى تانوي اريد منكم ان توافوني باقتراحاتكم و رايكم ارجوكم و تشجيعكم يهمني
the
last 30 years have seen some amazing changes in our world. The world we
knew in 1980 barely resembles the one we know today. National borders
have changed, technology has improved, and the ways in which we
communicate have never been faster.
Indeed, many things that people
once considered impossible have become reality. Think about it. If
someone would have told you in 1980 that the Berlin Wall would fall in
1989, or that Russia would become a democracy in 1991, what would you
have said? You probably would have told them they were crazy. Now, what
if someone would have told you that a “kid” named Mark Zuckerberg would
create a social network that would bring people together across
continents using something called the internet? You probably would have
laughed. However, in the past few years, these things and many others,
have all become a reality. In fact, social and political change are now
connected to, and influenced by the communications technologies that are
bringing the world closer together.
Specifically, the social media
platforms that are bringing the world closer together have begun to
change the world that we are building for ourselves and our children.
This last year has shown governments around the world that people can
coordinate and communicate with one another at a rate far greater than
had ever been possible before.
For better or worse, the
revolutionary movements have now embraced the idea of using technology
to spread their messages and unite their followers. Really, citizen led
revolutions are not a “new” thing. In fact, the French Revolution in
1789, and the American Revolution in 1776 were both citizen revolutions.
However, they were slow in forming, and took years of coordinated
efforts to achieve. Communications often took weeks or months, and it
was difficult to bring everyone together to discuss ideas. The year 2011
showed the world that revolutions can now happen in a matter of hours
and days, not months and years. Modern technology and social media like
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, VKontakte, along with dozens of other
networks now make it possible for communications to travel thousands of
miles in just a few seconds.
In Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Syria, and
Russia, these platforms allowed people to organize against the policies
and practices of their governments rapidly and with relative ease. Still
their governments all attempted to “shut down” these movements in their
early phases. With the exception of Algeria, the governments were
unsuccessful. In some cases, these social movements became very
dangerous. For instance, Libya fell into a civil war, and Syria is
teetering on the brink of one as I write this article. Egypt fluctuates
between peaceful resistance and armed conflict with authorities. Russia,
for the time being, is showing signs of peaceful resistance, but given
Russia’s history, it is quite possible that the recent demonstrations
could become violent. Without question, 2011’s most memorable event, the
event that historians will study for centuries, was the “Arab Spring”
which began in Tunisia in December 2010. It was the first successful
revolution to use modern social media to organize people and ideas. Will
social media be used in other countries to start revolutions? Political
Scientists and governments around the world believe they will. In fact,
some countries like China and Algeria have put strong restrictions on
social media sites in their countries to prevent revolutions from
happening. Will this work? I doubt it. Have politics and the way people
interact with their governments changed forever? Absolutely, and social
media will continue to change the way people share ideas, gain
knowledge, and live.
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