Arab World: Berkman Launches New Arab Blog Study

Posted 19 June 2009 23:24 GMT

Countries	Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Libya, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Topics	Technology, Digital Activism
Languages	English
Special	Blogger Profiles

Tunisia

Harvard University's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society has released a study of the Arabic blogosphere entitled Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere. About 35,000 active blogs were covered. “The goal for the study was to produce a baseline assessment of the networked public sphere in the Arab Middle East, and its relationship to a range of emergent issues, including politics, media, religion, culture, and international affairs,” announced the centre.

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