All over the world, especially in Arab countries such as Egypt Tunesia and Libya, large revolutions are taking place. Most of you probably are familiar with the Jasmin revolution, Velvet revolution and the Islamite revolution. All three names of political and social revolts that took place in recent years. Many people and researchers believe that social media as Twitter had a significant impact on the establishments of these revolutions. This idea is better known as -the much discussed phenomenon in the media- the Twitter revolution. According to the supporters of this ‘theory ’, Twitter and Facebook were indispensable channels in the mobilization of the masses in Egypt and Tunisia. Yet, there are also many people who believe that the Twitter revolution does not exist and is just a fabrication. The most important reason for this statement is that long before the existent of social media and even before the existent of the internet, there were already mobs of people who took to the street to protest and demonstrate.
To get a better picture of the Twitterrevolution, we ( project group of the course Business Information technology) interviewed Prof. Dr. G. van Oortmerssen, full proffesor in Evolution of Internet at Tilburg University, to look at these revolutions from a scientific point of view. This leads to a discussion about WikiLeaks because some people say this project from Jullian Assange led to these revolutions. To conclude this interview, van Oortmerssen explains his article about the Value Driven Web. You can watch the highlights of this interview by clicking on the screen below. Hope you enjoy it!
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