{"id":299,"date":"2015-01-01T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/wp\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:29:38","slug":"the-alchemy-of-revolution-the-role-of-social-networks-and-new-media-in-the-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemy of Revolution: The Role of Social Networks and New Media  in the Arab Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva Centre for Security Policy<br \/>\nGCSP Policy Paper 2012\/7<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mcetoc_1jnklrhda0\">The Alchemy of Revolution:<br \/>\nThe Role of Social Networks and New Media<br \/>\nin the Arab Spring<\/h3>\n<p>by Reda Benkirane (<a href=\"https:\/\/archipress.org\/docs\/pdf\/Alchemy_of_Revolution_RBenkirane.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;if 2011 was a year of Arab collective therapy whereby ICTs\u2019 role facilitated the liberation process,<\/em><em> then 2012 is the year of psychological depression and political regression\/repression due to the control made possible by the same ICTs\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTechnology is a <\/em>pharmakon<em>; a remedy that can heal and a poison that can kill\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archipress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alchemy_of_Revolution_RBenkirane1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Alchemy_of_Revolution_RBenkirane1<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archipress.org\/docs\/pdf\/Alchemy_of_Revolution_RBenkirane.pdf\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva Centre for Security Policy GCSP Policy Paper 2012\/7 The Alchemy of Revolution: The Role of Social Networks and New Media in the Arab Spring by Reda Benkirane (PDF) &#8220;if 2011 was a year of Arab collective therapy whereby ICTs\u2019 role facilitated the liberation process, then 2012 is the year\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archipress.org\/?p=299\">Lire plus \/ Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,122,242],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rhizome","tag-arab-revolutions","tag-ia","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archipress.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}