Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Internet Archive & Libyan newspapers logos Colonel Gaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years after taking power from King Idris in a 1969 military coup . In August 2011, his regime was toppled in the so-called Arab Spring. For more than four decades, media in Libya was highly politicized to support Gaddafi’s regime and secure his power. After the Libyan revolution (in 2011), media became freed from the tight control of the government, and we have seen the establishment of tens if not hundreds of new media organizations. Here is an overview of one side, newspapers, of Gaddafi’s propaganda machine: 71 newspapers and magazines  All monitored and published by the Libyan General Press Corporation (LGPC)  The Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA) was the main source of domestic news  No real political function other than to polish the regime’s image  Publish information provided by the regime  The following are the Libyan most well-known newspapers which are all published by LGPC: All L

Source: http://www.masrawy.com/News/News_ Various/details/2015/6/7/596077/أسرة-الشهيد-أحمد-بسيوني -فوجئنا-بصورته-على-قناة-الشرق-والقناة-نرفض-التصريح I remembered his face and smile very well. It was very tough for me to look at his smile and realize that he will not be in this world again. It got worse for me when I read his story and many others who had died defending the future of my home country, Egypt, hoping to draw a better future for their kids. Ahmed Basiony, one of Egypt’s great artists, was killed by the Egyptian Regime on the January 28th, 2011. One of the main reasons that drove Basiony to participate in the protests is filming police beatings to document the protests. While he was filming, he also used his camera during the demonstration to zoom on the soldiers and warn the people around him so they take cautions before they had gunfire. Suddenly, his camera fell down. Basiony was a dad for two kids: one and six years old. He has been loved by everyone who knew hi

The Egyptian revolution on the 25th of January 2011 was unlike any other revolution in history because of the role of social media . Several blogs, Storify entries, web pages, channels on YouTube where created to document the revolution . Several books were even published documenting the 18 days . All of these contributions were made by the public, not historians, utilizing the tools of web 2.0 . As a result of all these contributions we have an enormous digital content including thousands of posts, tweets, images, videos and sound files narrating and documenting the revolution. Unfortunately, at the first anniversary of this revolution over 10% of this digital content is already gone. Websites like Twitter , YouTube , Facebook , Storify , 1000Memories , Blogger and IAmJan25 have allowed the public to document the events of the revolution in real-time. Storify, for example, allows the user to create a timed organized collection of tweets, links, images, posts, map locations or vid