Twitter Frames: Finding Social Media’s “Influentials” During the “Arab Spring”

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Author(s): Aziz Douai (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)and Mohamed Ben Moussa (McGill University, Canada)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 16
Source title: New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anthony A. Olorunnisola (Pennsylvania State University, USA)and Aziz Douai (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4197-6.ch012

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Abstract

This chapter reports preliminary findings from a larger investigation of the role of social media and communication technologies in the “Arab Democracy Spring.” The goal of the study is to analyze how Egyptian activists used Twitter during the 2011 protests. This stage of the project specifically outlines ways of identifying and classifying some of the most influential Egyptian Twitter users during these events. In addition to profiling the “influentials,” this study applies a framing perspective to understanding Twitter’s use among Egyptian activists.

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