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1. In the past the government was able to control public messages to Arab countries now, however, social media cannot be regulated.

2. Tunisia was the first nation to revolt against its government on Jan. 14.

3. Founding Dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication and speaker Dr. Lawrence Pintak said the recorded beating of a man had taped illegal police activity.

4. Cell phone pictures of a Tunisian fruit vendor who lit himself on fire in protest of police seizing his fruit cart were broadcast online, which ignited conflict throughout Arab nations.

5. Rev. Jesse Jackson talked about lessons learned from the civil rights movement. If people became politically active, then they can change government policy.

6. The 18-day revolution in Egypt was not an expected event, the oppressed lower-class Arabs had been preparing for years, Pintak said.

7. The Arab government pulled the plug on the Internet in January.

8. “I loved the 90s,” Smith said. The 1990s resulted in more technological innovations that any decade in the 20th Century, she said.