【影片簡介】臉書如何改變世界：阿拉伯之春 How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

 

 

 

英國 UK︱2011︱100 min︱BBC 

 

自二○一○年底，一種新形態的民主革命開始在阿拉伯世界燃燒，從突尼西亞、埃及、利比亞，到巴林王國和敘利亞，新世代的青年在網路上串聯、發起革命。

 

阿拉伯世界中，有三分之二的人口是廿五歲以下的青年，而青年之中，平均每四位就有一位失業。因為網路普及而受到西方自由思想薰陶的年輕世代，空有理想抱負卻無從施展；他們反觀身處的國度是不重視人權的極權統治，紛紛將不滿化為行動，在臉書等社群網站上串聯，推翻舊有的獨裁政權。而走上街頭的同時，他們也不忘拿起手機，記錄抗爭的真實情況，再透過網路，向全世界發聲，不再輕易讓官方所控制的新聞媒體蒙蔽事實的真相。

 

利用上千名抗爭者所自行拍攝的平面與動態影像，英國國家廣播公司BBC所製作的《臉書如何改變世界》詳盡解析「阿拉伯之春」的起源與演變，釐清所有錯綜複雜的支線與背景，觀看突尼西亞一名水果小販之死如何引爆橫跨整個中東及北非的革命之火，也細細分析網路世代的公民是如何突破重重防火牆，向世界宣告他們的民主宣言。

 

From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Libya, a very modern kind of revolution has swept the Middle East; started by young people and powered by them, planned and engineered online.

 

Two thirds of the population in the Arab world are under the age of 25 and a quarter are unemployed. The internet allowed them to become furtive consumers of western media. They had grown up longing for the freedom, prosperity and human rights they saw other countries enjoying.

 

Using video and stills shot by thousands of people on mobile phone cameras, How Facebook Changed the World reveals how social and political change is being driven by the blogging, Facebooking, tweeting generation of the 21st century, wrong footing the gerontocracy in a matter of months if not weeks through theviral power of the internet.

 

Told through the young people prepared to take a stand and the footage they shot, this programme reveals how these movements snowballed from the streets upwards.

  

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