Digital Communication and the Pro-Democracy Movement in the Arab World: Role, Significance and Outcomes

作     者：Majed KHADER 

作者机构：Marshall University in HuntingtonWest Virginia 

出 版 物：《Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies》 (亚洲中东与伊斯兰研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2011年第5卷第4期

页      面：28-47页

学科分类：08[工学] 082304[工学-载运工具运用工程] 080204[工学-车辆工程] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 

主　　题：Digital Communication Arab Revolution Middle East Upheaval Middle East Politics Arab Turmoil 

摘      要：After decades of living under oppressive dictatorships,the people of the Arab world are rising up against their countries’*** over nine months now,we have been witnessing massive,large scale,and peaceful demonstrations spreading all over the Arab Middle Eastern *** mass civic demonstrations have been given many names,including the Arab Spring,Arab uprising,turmoil,tumult,chaos,Arab awakening,Arab revolution,revolt,*** is a reform movement on the march that was first started in Tunisia,which moved to Egypt,and then swept across the region to include Yemen,Bahrain,Libya and *** in the rest of the Arab world such as Algeria,Jordan,Kuwait,Morocco and Saudi Arabia,were also inspired by the revolts and calls for reform which had been sweeping the Arab *** and human rights groups from these countries congregate frequently at popular places and landmarks to protest against their regimes and call for political,economical and social reforms.