Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin,
and Amy Mitchell
Now, research is emerging that reexamines in a more
detailed way the role that social media played in the
Arab uprisings
In July 2012 a report was published by the United
States Institute of Peace. The authors came to
some conclusions that countered the initial
assumption that social media was a causal
mechanism in the uprisings.
Instead, the study suggests that the importance of
social media was in communicating to the rest of the
world what was happening on the ground during the
uprisings
Data from the Pew Research Center's Global
Which passage provides more effective evidence, and
why?
The first passage provides more effective evidence
because the language it uses is more evocative
and interesting than the language in the second
passage
The second passage provides more effective
evidence because it describes uprisings in many
countries rather than focusing solely on one
country, as the first passage does
The first passage provides more effective evidence
because it has data and statistics from research
reports, while the second passage uses titles of
articles and authors' names as evidence
The second passage provides more effective
evidence because it includes four sources, while
the first passage provides only two