@arabspring

Prior to today's class I knew very little about the Arab Spring. We had talked briefly about it in my Intro to Digital Media class back when I was a first year and I knew it was sometimes refered to as "The Twitter Revolution," but that was really the extent of my knowledge. In today's session I learned a little more about how it got this nickname. A wave of revolutions took place in Tunisia and Egypt, among other countries in close proximity, in 2011 and it was in large part due to social media.