I Don't Like You Any More: Facebook Unfriending by Israelis During the Israel-Gaza Conflict of 2014

Journal of Communication

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 953-974

  John, Nicholas A ^a   Dvir Gvirsman, Shira ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Defriending; Deliberation and Political Conversation; Disconnection; Facebook; Homophily; Ideologies Values; Internet New Technology; Social Network Sites; Unfriending; Weak Ties

Indexed keywords

IDEOLOGY; INTERNET; POLITICAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

GAZA STRIP; ISRAEL; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES;

EID: 84958780128     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12188     Document Type: Article

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