Uprising – Music, Images and The Tunisia and Egypt Revolution on Youtube
Music, images and nowadays video have always been an important part of protest movements. These practices of making and spreading music videos can enhance the solidarity with a movement, its identity and ideas, values and goals. It makes distant sympathizers (feel) part of the movement, in this case global movement’ because they are actually participating in spreading the word (and image) and the express their own political position in public. In combination with the visual representation the musical videos on Youtube have become important platform for what has been called ’semiotic resistance’and creativity; one that has profound cultural and political significance.