The Arab Spring and Social Media Audiences: English and Arabic Twitter Users and Their Networks

Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the 2011 "Arab Spring" are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these uprisings, it is nonetheless true that protests and unrest in countries from Tunisia to Syria generated a sub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bruns, A., Highfield, Tim, Burgess, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19900