But this has nothing to do with technology itself | El-Sennawi, a well known Nasserist writer says that there was a dire need to look into the usage of the new technologies |
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Egypt is the second country in Africa having Facebook users | This is in addition to their manifesto which clearly more societal rather than political |
Egypt, also, is one of the best examples for the usage of the social networks like Facebook, and the new media tools like Twitter for political mobilization.
8The complexities being imposed by Facebook and the circulation of information and data are unpredictable | The scene we watch on the theater of life is played by people like us |
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They are also challenging authority of various kinds — political, religious and social | The role, also the media —the New and the Traditional- played was very critical one, through the different stages of the strike |
This no doubt can easily exhaust the authority if it tried to oppose it.
Different demonstrations were oppressed by violence | Facebook is up and growing, offering a lot more than just a political platform for activists |
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The 6 th of April strike was, yes, mainly initiated by political activists, but the 75, 000 who joined the Facebook group were not all of them political activists | Official papers were unanimous in their criticism of the supposed misuse of the Internet |
And even if the show was done through robots, still we are the one who program them.
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