Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring | Science News | Scoop.it
From phys.org - May 22, 2012 6:14 PM

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.