The Egyptian blogosphere: A counter-narrative of the revolution

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 17-26

  Al Ani, Ban ^a   Mark, Gloria ^a   Chung, Justin ^a   Jones, Jennifer ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

blogs; counter narrative; counter power; empirical study; middle east and north africa (mena); socio political uprising; topic modeling

Indexed keywords

COUNTER-NARRATIVE; COUNTER-POWER; EMPIRICAL STUDY; NORTH AFRICA; SOCIO-POLITICAL UPRISING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

BLOGS;

EID: 84863406949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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