2011 in review: Social media and the protests

Activists say social media helped bring about historic progress on human rights across the world during 2011.

Activists say social media helped bring about historic progress on human rights during 2011.

They say it helped them to manoeuvre and expose government suppression of free speech and peaceful protest.

SBS' Phillippa Carisbrooke looks at the role social media played in world events in 2011.