Social media's role in formenting protest action in Egypt has often been lauded by proponents of these web 2.0 technologies, to the extent that the collective protest actions that swept the Middle East and North Africa from December 2010 to the present have been referred to as "Twitter Revolutions" in recognition of the pivotal played by Twitter in mobilising citizents.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nmmu/vital:8416 |
Date | January 2012 |
Creators | Ramphobole, Thabo |
Publisher | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Arts |
Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis, Masters, MA |
Format | v, 91 leaves, pdf |
Rights | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University |
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