Square occupation becomes a tactical model cited by U.S. organizers.
Arab Spring influences U.S. activists' tactics
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Tufekci, Z. & Wilson, C. (2012). Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 363-379. Survey of Tahrir Square participants. Source for the finding that social media use significantly increased the odds of attending the protests on their first day.
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Parvaz, D. (2012). Wael Ghonim: The face of Egypt's revolution. Al Jazeera. Source for Ghonim's role administering the 'We are all Khaled Said' Facebook page, his work as a Google marketing manager, and his detention from 28 January 2011.
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Glennon, P. (2011). Occupy Wall Street: Adbusters to Set Up Camp in the Next Tahrir Square?. In These Times. Published 13 September 2011, before the encampment began. Source for the claim that U.S. organizers modelled the tactic on Tahrir Square and Madrid's Puerta del Sol; it also notes the limits of the analogy.
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Tufekci, Z. (2017). Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Yale University Press. Book-length treatment of networked protest spanning Tahrir and Occupy.
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January 25, 2011
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