Between a rock and a cell phone: Communication and information technology use during the 2011 Egyptian uprising

ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kavanaugh, Andrea ^a   Sheetz, Steven D ^a   Hassan, Riham ^b   Yang, Seungwon ^a   Elmongui, Hicham G ^c   Fox, Edward A ^a   Magdy, Mohamed ^a   Shoemaker, Donald J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arab Academy for Science and Technology ^*  (Egypt)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Innovation diffusion; Middle East; Mobile phones; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE PHONES;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE; INNOVATION DIFFUSION; INNOVATION DIFFUSION THEORY; MIDDLE EAST; OPINION LEADERS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905565246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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