Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring

Globalizations

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 675-679

  Khondker, Habibul Haque ^a  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

globalization; Middle East; new media; social movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859336965     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2011.621287     Document Type: Article

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