In the wake of the 2018 Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal, social media companies
began restricting academic researchers' access to the easiest, most reliable means of …

This study applies the connective action framework and network analysis to analyze how
counterpublics used social media to form cliques and mobilize support toward a local issue …

Guided by moral foundation theory and information virality theory, this study explored how
moral framing, operationalized as the use of one of the five moral dimensions in tweets (ie …

Together, social media and crowdsourcing can help entrepreneurs to attract external finance
and early-stage customers. This paper investigates the characteristics and discourse of an …

This study investigates the role of online media in mobilizing large-scale collective action.
Adopting the theoretical framework of collective action space, we formulated the organizing …

The study of online media use has been elemental in shaping the research on publics within
communication and media studies in the last few decades. This article takes a critical view of …

The fallacy of premature designations such as “Iran's Twitter Revolution” can be attributed to
the empirical gap in our knowledge about such sociotechnical phenomena in non-Western …

Structural balance theory assumes triads in networks to gravitate toward stable
configurations. The theory has been verified for undirected graphs. Since real-world social …

Mobilization theory posits that social media gives a voice to non-traditional actors in socio-
political discourse. This study uses network analytics to understand the underlying structure …

In the past decade, significant transformations have influenced the governance of urban
public spaces. There has also been a growth in new public spheres associated with digital …