On the ground in sidi bouzid: Investigating social media use during the tunisian revolution

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1409-1418

  Wulf, Volker ^a,b   Misaki, Kaoru ^b   Atam, Meryem ^b   Randall, David ^a   Rohde, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b International Institute for Socio Informatics (IISI)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arab spring; On the ground studies; Social media

Indexed keywords

NEW MEDIA; ON THE GROUND STUDIES; SATELLITE TV; SOCIAL MEDIA; TUNISIA; WEB 2.0;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874824233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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