Role of social media in social change: An analysis of collective sense making during the 2011 Egypt Revolution

Information Systems Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 210-223

  Oh, Onook ^a   Eom, Chanyoung ^b   Rao, H R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

2011 Egypt Revolution; Collective sense making; Hashtag; Human machine collaborative information process; Social change; Social media; Sociomateriality; Twitter

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

2011 EGYPT REVOLUTION; COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION; HASHTAG; SENSE MAKING; SOCIAL CHANGES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84929174988     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2015.0565     Document Type: Article

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