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Information Technology and the “Arab Spring”

2013· article· en· W2732629132 on OpenAlex
Emily Fekete, Barney Warf

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThe InternetAutocracySocial mediaGovernment (linguistics)Middle EastPublic sphereSpring (device)Information technologyMedia studiesInformation and Communications TechnologySociologySpace (punctuation)Political sciencePublic relationsPoliticsDemocracyLawComputer scienceWorld Wide WebEngineering

Abstract

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The demonstrations, revolts, and protests collectively known as the Arab Spring have destabilized many long-standing autocratic governments in the Middle East. Central to this process were several types of information technology, including mobile phones, the internet, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. Unfortunately this issue is often represented in simplistic, technologically deterministic terms. This essay examines the distribution and growth of several digital information technologies in seven countries rocked by recent protests. It opens with a conceptual analysis grounded in the works of Jurgen Habermas, asserting that information technology has democratized the sphere of public debate throughout the Arab world. Second, it charts the Arab space of flows, the infrastructure and usage of the internet, cell phones, and social media. Third, it outlines government attempts to censor the Arab internet. The fourth part details how various information technologies were utilized by the Arab masses, particularly...

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.739
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it