Effects Of Mass And Social Media

Mass and social media have their effects in the socio-political life of any nation. Understanding the phenomenon of mass mobilization and socialization has its big part in the political sciences. Mass mobilization emerged with the modern industrial era, this technique to mobilize the masses to a certain political agenda or set of goals was used in its most port to serve political and business goals. Mass media tends to achieve a successful and direct communication between the authorities and the citizens in one hand, and between the different social groups in the other hand. Fully knowing the dangerous influential effect that can be promoted via the media, regimes tried their best to control all sorts of information flow through the different media and at all levels. The materialization of the social media that followed the breakthrough in communication tools, especially the internet, has turned the tides and makes it more difficult to the political authorities to …show more content…
This safe communication strategy allowed the opposition to gather itself, plan and organize their protests behind the authorities' backs. Importantly, due to the media, revolutionary movement was spread where normal methods of governmental oppression and intervention couldn’t locate nor stop it. And when they tried to, it backfired on them, even when they shut off the internet in January 2011 for five consecutive days. And when the uprising was in progress the mass media was a vital source of news and enthusiasm to the revolutionaries, and more importantly was successful in mobilizing more and more of the masses to the cause. Besides, it was to play a window to the revolutionaries to expose what was hidden by the governmental control over the information transfer to best serve the political