Digital activism in the Middle East: mapping issue networks in Egypt, Iran, Syria and Tunisia

Jansen, Fieke

doi:10.1080/19474199.2010.493854

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“…Similar to the earlier studies [10,11,12], which identified significant variation in the representation of protest activities in different languages; we found that various language streams on Twitter propagated varying interpretations of the protests in Ukraine. The Ukrainian stream, which was actively used for public mobilization, presented the Euromaidan protests as a Ukrainian revolutionary movement; these revolutionary frames were supplemented by a number of historical references to the national liberation movement, in particular the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.…”

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#Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

Lyebyedyev¹,

Makhortykh

2018

2018 IEEE Second International Conference on Data Stream Mining &Amp; Processing (DSMP)

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In this paper we investigate the use of social media for framing the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine. Using automatic classification of a large set of Twitter data, we investigate how the online representation of protests changed between different stages of the protest campaign; furthermore, we question how the framing of Euromaidan varied between different language streams. Our findings suggest that framing of Euromaidan on social media evolved from a peaceful movement to revolutionary force and then to existential danger to the Russophone population, prompting the continuation of political crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

#Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

Lyebyedyev¹,

Makhortykh

2018

2018 IEEE Second International Conference on Data Stream Mining &Amp; Processing (DSMP)

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“…Technology and digital media play a complex role in mobilizing social movements and political participation (Bennett, 2003; Harlow, 2012; Murthy, 2012; Rheingold, 2008). Various case studies have analyzed the role of Twitter in social movements—in what is colloquially dubbed the “Twitter Revolution”—such as Occupy Wall Street (Conover, Ferrara, Menczer, & Flammini, 2013; Gleason, 2013; Thorson et al, 2013) and the Arab Spring (Bruns, Highfield, & Burgess, 2013; Jansen, 2010; Lotan et al, 2010; Papacharissi & De Fatima Oliveira, 2012; Tufekci, 2012). While Twitter was not developed with the intention of fostering community, real connection in an “imagined community” can be fostered on Twitter (Anderson, 1983; Gruzd, Wellman, & Takhteyev, 2011).…”

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Movember: Twitter Conversations of a Hairy Social Movement

Jacobson

Mascaro

2016

Social Media + Society

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Movember is an annual “month-long celebration of the moustache” where men grow a mustache and raise money in the largest philanthropic endeavor for men’s health. Movember is predominantly an online campaign, and consequently, participants have actively embraced social media; this is evidenced in the 1,879,994 tweets collected during Movember 2012 in this research project. This article presents an analysis of Movember that examines how individuals use the numerous syntactical features of Twitter to engage in conversation and share information in order to develop a nuanced understanding of how people are utilizing social media as part of the social movement. While Movember has been successful in gaining traction on social media, the Twitter data point to surprising conclusions that have implications for understanding non-profits and social movements online. The following study provides two main contributions to existing sociotechnical social movement literature using a mixed-methods approach. First, the findings suggest that there is limited true conversation taking place although the stated purpose of the campaign is to facilitate conversation. Second, the findings identify that participants are more engaged with Movember as a branded movement than engaged in health promotion. While the tweets are conversational in form, they are largely not conversational in function, which points to Twitter being used as a broadcast tool in this context. These findings have broad implications for understanding how social media is used to engage individuals in social campaigns and engage with each other and share information.

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“…Use of English or Arabic may also be affected by the topics discussed in posts and by the intended audience. Jansen’s (2010) study of digital activism in the Middle East found that in Syria, Arabic was employed for discussion of “more general issues like government, unemployment, and poverty,” whereas English was used for comments on specific activist issues, including individual cases of arrest or harassment (p. 48). Jansen argues that blogging in English may be aimed at drawing more, global attention to particular issues.…”

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The Arab Spring and Social Media Audiences

Bruns

Highfield

Burgess

2013

American Behavioral Scientist

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Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the 2011 “Arab Spring” are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these uprisings, it is nonetheless true that protests and unrest in countries from Tunisia to Syria generated a substantial amount of social media activity. On Twitter alone, several millions of tweets containing the hashtags #libya or #egypt were generated during 2011, both by directly affected citizens of these countries and by onlookers from further afield. What remains unclear, though, is the extent to which there was any direct interaction between these two groups (especially considering potential language barriers between them). Building on hashtag data sets gathered between January and November 2011, this article compares patterns of Twitter usage during the popular revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Libya. Using custom-made tools for processing “big data,” we examine the volume of tweets sent by English-, Arabic-, and mixed-language Twitter users over time and examine the networks of interaction (variously through @replying, retweeting, or both) between these groups as they developed and shifted over the course of these uprisings. Examining @reply and retweet traffic, we identify general patterns of information flow between the English- and Arabic-speaking sides of the Twittersphere and highlight the roles played by users bridging both language spheres.

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Digital activism in the Middle East: mapping issue networks in Egypt, Iran, Syria and Tunisia

Cited by 32 publications

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#Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

#Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

Movember: Twitter Conversations of a Hairy Social Movement

The Arab Spring and Social Media Audiences

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