Analyzing the role of ICTs in the Tunisian and Egyptian unrest from an information warfare perspective

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1406-1416

  Van Niekerk, Brett ^a   Pillay, Kiru ^a   Maharaj, Manoj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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