Social media in Saudi Arabia: Exploring its use during two natural disasters

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 95, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-15

  Al Saggaf, Yeslam ^a   Simmons, Peter ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activism; Collective behaviour; Disaster; Gulf States; Online public sphere; Political participation; Saudi Arabia; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DISASTERS; SPHERES;

ACTIVISM; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; GULF STATES; POLITICAL PARTICIPATIONS; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85028119655     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.08.013     Document Type: Article

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