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| Contents |
Introduction -- Interactions and Challenges. Journalism during the Arab Spring: Interactions and Challenges / Diana Bossio -- The Context for Discussion of the Arab Spring Protests -- Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- Social Media Revolutions? -- The Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- The Arab Spring on Twitter: Language Communities in #egypt and #libya / Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield -- Al Jazeera English's Networked Journalism During the 2011 Egyptian Uprising / William Lafi Youmans -- Networked Journalism -- Al Jazeera English and Networked Journalism -- Political effects. Syrian activists in Russia: the Limits of Visibility in a Hostile Host Country / Mervi Pantti and Evgeniya Boklage -- Diaspora Activism as Personalised Civic Action -- Publicising the Protest: the Syrian diaspora as a key activist cluster -- Media Activism in the Syrian Diaspora in Russia -- Practices and Networks -- Online and Offline Mobilisation of Support -- High-risk Activism in Russia -- Twitter-ized Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire / Robert Imre and Stephen Owen -- The Revolution will (not) be Tweeted: Protests and Political Mobilisation in Iran -- Protests and Cyber-utopianism in the Ukraine: the Orange revolution -- Ukrainian and Iranian Protests and the Problematisation of Online Networks -- Predicting the Future. A Shift in Media Power: The Mediated Public Sphere During the "Arab Spring" / Saba Bebawi -- Centres of Power and the Public Sphere -- Institutional Journalists using Social Media -- Social Media using Institutional Media Reports -- Social Media as Independent Media -- A Power Shift?. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2014024477 |
| ISBN | 9781137361394 |
| ISBN | 1137361395 |
