Tag: Arab Spring
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Arab Spring turns one year old
January 25, 2012[Wired Danger Room] The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis: Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator.
And now, these researchers claim, they’re getting close to developing tools that can track the spread of infections like these.
With funding from the Office of Naval Research, a team at Aptima, Inc. is developing software that’d do more than just scan Twitter for trending topics. Instead, it’d mine the web, including news stories, social networks and blogs, to extract topics and phrases that are gaining traction online. Then, the software would keep tabs on how the conversations proliferate, both geographically and over time.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/military-meme-tracker/
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Tear gas returns to Cairo’s Tahrir Square
November 23, 2011Cairo (CNN) — Dawn broke over central Cairo Tuesday, revealing thousands of demonstrators sleeping on the lawns, sidewalks and streets of Tahrir Square.
Throughout the previous night, running street battles raged in the streets and back alleys just a few hundred yards away. The steady stream of ambulances leaving Tahrir were a tragic sign of just how violent Egypt’s latest round of political unrest has been.
Most of the demonstrators were young Egyptian men; many were teenagers.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/africa/egypt-cairo-scene/index.html
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