Social Media and Political Mobilization: A Conversation with Egyptian and Hungarian Bloggers

Central European University, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania and Internews organized a Webinar that brought bloggers from Egypt and Hungary in conversation with each other as well as an international audience of media scholars, development practitioners and communication academics that included the participants of the CEU 2010 Summer University course on media development and democratization.

Questions they discussed included: How are blogs altering the political and social fabric of countries with troubled political systems or political systems in transition? What role are social media playing in mobilizing citizens, and what’s the extent of its reach? Is it a main player or a supplementary tool? ? What impact has the proliferation of social media usage had on mainstream journalism?