Are social media emancipatory or hegemonic? Societal effects of mass media digitization in the case of the SOPA discourse

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 303-329

  Miranda, Shaila M ^a   Young, Amber ^b   Yetgin, Emre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Content analysis; Network analysis; Social construction of meaning; Social media; Traditional mass media

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CASE STUDY APPROACH; CONTENT ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGE; STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS; TRADITIONAL COMMUNICATION MEDIAS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84973526825     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2016/40.2.02     Document Type: Article

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