What Tahrir Square Has Done for Social Media: A 2012 Snapshot in the Struggle for Political Power in Egypt

Information Society

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-80

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hacking; media ecology; networks; online and offline; tactical media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893511186     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.856363     Document Type: Article

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