New texts and contexts in web 2.0. Case studies related to the revolutions on North Africa and Middle East
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internet and the social networks have played a crucial role in the recent Arab revolutions, opening a debate about if the use of the technologies by majorities of citizens, which challenges the tradicional exercise of the media and demands more open forms of diffusion, interchange and debates of the information. The Web 2,0 has been an essential instrument for the appearance of new forms to construct stories that are integrated in collective works, open, hypertextual, popular. it is absolutely compatible the role that the citizenship assumes understanding that the media and the networks are for serving to majorities and citizen minorities, but this does not imply the disappearance of the most demanding and honest media.
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