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Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt

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After popular mobilizations successfully toppled the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in 2011, a substantial amount of research focused on the role of the media in mobilizing popular dissent in the Arab uprisings. One strand of literature argued that the Internet expanded the public sphere, allowed more pluralism, and challenged the centralized political system. According to this argumentation, the new media enabled autonomous decentralized communication by challenging actors (Shirky, 2011; Khamis & Vaughn, 2011; Abdulla, 2011).

This publication is based on a research project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and realized at the Orient-Institut Beirut, Cairo Office.

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Badr, H. (2018). Social Movements and Social Media in a Post-Revolutionary Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in Egypt. In: Richter, C., Antonakis, A., Harders, C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia. Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_8

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