Watching From Afar: Media Consumption Patterns Around the Arab Spring

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 899-919

  Aday, Sean ^a   Farrell, Henry ^a   Freelon, Deen ^b   Lynch, Marc ^a   Sides, John ^a   Dewar, Michael ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bitly   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; social movements; twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879158988     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213479373     Document Type: Article

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