Interactive effects of networked publics and social media on transforming the public sphere: A survey of Iran's leaderless 'social media revolution'

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2552-2562

  Chatfield, Akemi Takeoka ^a   Akbari, Reza ^a   Mirzayi, Nima ^a   Scholl, Hans J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; SPHERES; SURVEYS;

COMMAND AND CONTROL; DISASTER RESPONSE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; ONLINE SURVEYS; POLITICAL ACTIONS; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; RESEARCH PROPOSITIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857949665     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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