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Facebook polls as proto-democratic instruments in the Egyptian revolution: The ‘We Are All Khaled Said’ Facebook page
Global Media and Communication ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2018-04-01 , DOI: 10.1177/1742766518760085
Rasha Abdulla 1 , Thomas Poell 2 , Bernhard Rieder 2 , Robbert Woltering 2 , Liesbeth Zack 2
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This article examines the dynamics of political participation on the ‘We Are All Khaled Said’ Facebook page, which hosted the call for Egypt’s 25 January 2011 revolution. It shows that the page served as a proto-democratic instrument by introducing both qualitative and quantitative polls and following up with actions based on majority opinion. This argument is developed through an analysis of discussion threads and polls from the page, selected from a data set of 14,072 posts, 6,810,357 comments and 32,030,731 likes made by 1,892,118 users, extracted via a customized version of Netvizz. The analysis demonstrates that the page provided a basic lesson in democratic participation to its users. ‘We Are All Khaled Said’ constituted an unprecedented public space for active discussions on fighting corruption, torture and police brutality. Moreover, it served as a practical example of shared governance and political participation, which became a model for its users to strive to apply to their country.

中文翻译:

Facebook 民意调查是埃及革命的原始民主工具:“我们都是哈立德赛义德”Facebook 页面

本文探讨了“我们都是哈立德赛义德”Facebook 页面上政治参与的动态,该页面主持了 2011 年 1 月 25 日埃及革命的呼吁。它表明该页面通过引入定性和定量民意调查并根据多数意见采取行动,从而充当了原始民主工具。该论点是通过对页面上的讨论主题和民意调查进行分析得出的,这些数据集选自 1,892,118 名用户的 14,072 个帖子、6,810,357 条评论和 32,030,731 个赞,这些数据集是通过 Netvizz 的定制版本提取的。分析表明,该页面为其用户提供了民主参与的基本课程。“我们都是哈立德赛义德”为积极讨论反腐败、酷刑和警察暴行提供了一个前所未有的公共空间。而且,
更新日期:2018-04-01
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