The fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January, has made clear the unlimited power of social networks. The rebellion in less than a month, toppling a dictatorship, deeply entrenched since 1987, followed the following schedule: ONE: Buazizi Mohamed, a young peddler of the city of Sidi Buzid, commits suicide, is self-immolation "in response to the daily humiliation they subjected to local police. TWO: Many young people, including Naji who is electrocuted Lahsin hanging from a power line, screaming: Enough misery, just stop! (youth unemployment exceeds 40% - come to protest in the streets of Sidi Buzid. THREE: police brutally attacked the spontaneous demonstrations. The images of repression are recorded by video cameras and cell phones are widely used by social networking sites. The movement is amplified in Tunisia and affects all other nations of the Arab world. FOUR: A media not controlled by the Government, Al-Jazeera in this case report and broadcast the images and messages that are posted on YouTube and other sites. FIVE: As the protests spread, mobile networks - SMS , Twitter, Facebook - are activated and establishes a system of communication and organization without center and without leaders, who work very efficiently, overwhelming the censorship and repression. SIX: virtually Broadcast video of the rapper Ben Amor General mass that encourages youth to go out and protest. It is clear that the root of the new people's power lies in the connection and immediacy between youth and Internet culture. In Tunisia, as in many Muslim countries, half of the population is under twenty-five years. SEVEN: The new Government-wide awake-starts cyberwar and Internet censorship, deleting the information on Facebook and blocking blogs and web sites of other activists. However, when triggers the power surfer, it becomes difficult to stop. EIGHT: Then you get to the figure of seventy-two dead, the military leaders refuse to obey the order to fire and the army stands against the regime's political police. NINE: As the riots spread, satellite television, which has half of the hearing before the state-controlled television, begins to propagate special reports, particularly Al Jazeera, but it is also joined the BBC in Arabic, France 24, Al Hiwar and others. The entire Arab world has its attention on this tiny country North African. The revolt becomes known as "The Revolt of the jasmine." TEN: Al Jazeera creates an interactive system for information disseminated over the Internet by citizens, using them as a documentary source and organizing groups in Facebook , transmitting directly to mobile phones for free. it seems to emerge the new mass communication system built as multi-modal interactive mix between TV, internet, radio and mobile communication platforms. ONCE: Given the scale of the protest, Ben Ali left the country and let the government hands Army. He is currently a refugee in Saudi Arabia.
communication of the future is already used in the revolutions of this, generated spontaneously, without strategies defined, with no leaders, for the simple outrage of thousands of young people willing to risk their lives against the deep corruption in his government (the family and Ben Ali's allies controlled half of large U.S. companies).
The direct effect of the fall of Tunisia has been an extraordinary exhibition of how they will raise the revolutions of tomorrow. The spark has now spread to Egypt causing the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February, and now teeter autocratic regimes in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria and Bahrain.
Thanks to virtual networks, the youth of the Arab world begins to breathe the scent of freedom (soon to be manifested in Iran, a country with the third location of bloggers worldwide). The revolution of jasmine is auspicious sign for the same will happen in Cuba, North Korea, why not in China.
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