Informing revolutions: the role of social media. Part 3 of 6, The Tunisian revolution: a Facebook revolution?

'Tunisian Revolution: a Facebook Revolution?' examines the role the HTTPS-technology played in the spread of information that would have been censored through other forms of social media (ie. YouTube) in Tunisia. A clear distinction is made between the efficiency of social media as an impetus and mode of communication, while stressing the role of protest, physical presence and the risk of those on the front line who achieved the end result the Tunisian movement. Also brought into question is the role of Western media bias and their hesitation to cover the events which led up to the overthrow of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime.Filmed at Scholarly Communications Center, Alexander Library, Rutgers University on March 29, 2011.Presentations include video and textual elements in Arabic that have been translated and expanded upon in English