Social media networks and political mobility in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Politics and Economics - Suez University

Abstract

                  The political movement - whether in reality or on social networks - increased significantly with the opening of the public sphere wide since 2011, and the movement witnessed calls to interact on the ground with policies or with government statements or demands for factional rights, and this matter continued until mid-2013, and with the escalation of crises. The political movement between the political system and its opponents, the regime saw that the movement in the street in the manner that it had reached is the source of many problems for it. So, the regime tried at that time to block all forms of political movement and mass mobilization, in addition to the institutionalization of the process of preventing movement, mobilization and protest. And restricting it, through the issuance of the Law on Preventing Demonstrations in November 2013, which imposed numerous restrictions on the mobilization operations of mobilization, mobilization, demonstrations and strangling the public space in an unprecedented way.
      Therefore, the research problem is determined in the test of the claim that, despite the state of siege imposed by the political system, the movement did not stop under the pretext that repression leads to a change in the forms of protest or does not stop it.

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