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The editors at Best Communications Degrees decided to research the topic of: Online Revolution! How the internet has changed the world There are 2,405,518,376 internet users in the world, a 566.4% growth since 2000. As the users grow, the world changes. Hacktivism - the nonviolent use of legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of politically, socially, or culturally subversive ends

- WikiLeaks

- Not-for-profit media organisation that provides a secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information.

- Released U.S. State department diplomatic "cables" - US assessments of host countries

- 251,287 Classified documents from 274 American consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions, around the world

- "A foreign plot to destabilize Arab regimes...WikiLeaks publishes information written by lying ambassadors in order to create chaos." �Muammar Gaddafi

- Initiated Arab Spring

- Protesters got organized through facebook:

- 1. spreading rebellious inspiration- videos and photographs of state brutality

- 2. "the GPS for this revolution" Logistical information of where and when to protest

- Egypt + Tunisia 60% of social networkers share political views

- Only 34% across the world stage

- Egypt +Tunisia +Lebanon + Jordan, 70% share community issues views

- Only 46% across the world stage

- Power of Trending

- Overthrow of Egypt

- tweets about Egyptian revolution

- escalated from 2,300 (1 month before resignation) to 230,000 per day the week President Hosni Mubarak stepped down

- Overthrow of Tunisia

- Tunisian Bloggers covering Tunisian revolution

- escalated from 5% (1 month before Ben Ali resigned) to 20% the day Ben Ali stepped down. You can be an expert in anything online...Hobbyist Revolution

- YouTube: I�m an Actor!

- professional actors [in US]: 66,500

- 1 trillion views in 2011 = 140 views per person on earth

- 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month

- 4 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube

- 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

- Instagram: I�m a Photographer! 13% of all internet users are on Instagram

- professional photographers [in US]: 139,500

- 90 million Monthly Active Users

- 40 million Photos Per Day Pinterest: I�m crafty! 15% of all internet users are on Pinterest

- 5 million stay at home mothers [in the US]

- 25.3 million MAUs [latest results sept 2012]

- 1,047% increase in YOY unique PC visitors

- Women are 5x more likely than men

- DoItYourself stats

- 4.9% of all boards are DIY & Crafts

- 9.6% of all pins are DIY & Crafts category WebMD - I�m a doctor! - Visual "Symptom Search: Headache" brain tumor

- headache brain tumor

- stomach ache HIV

- etc

- WebMD Traffic:

- professional Physicians/surgeons [in US]: 691,000

- Today 107.2 million unique users per month increase of 22% over 2011

- 2.56 billion page views for the quarter (Q3 2012) increase of 24% over 2011 Feel the Learn! anytime, anywhere, any price. Education

- Online classes:

- 32% of higher-ed students (6.7+ million) take at least one online course

- 77% of academic leaders rate the online learning outcomes as the same or superior to face-to-face learning.

- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

- Free online courses taught by Ivy League Professors

- Hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world enroll every semester.

- For MOOC students who had previously taken a similar class on a campus

- 63% said MOOC was better

- 36% found MOOC comparable

- 1% said MOOC was worse

- JSTOR has more than 4.5 million scholarly articles from nearly 800 academic publishers available online with a subscription. Sources

- http://investor.shareholder.com/wbmd/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=718031&CompanyID=WBMD

- http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/internet/research-arab-spring-internet-key-studies

- http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/assange-claims-credit-for-egypts-revolution/

- http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-media-users/Social-Networking-Site-Users/Demo-portrait.aspx

- http://www.repinly.com/stats.aspx

- http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html

- http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff08.html

- http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm



