The role of the media, and especially the social media, in the Arab Spring has been
extensively debated in academia. This study presents a survey of studies published in …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

This study examines the impact of social media use on participation in large-scale protest
campaigns that feature a range of participation opportunities. It develops a theoretical model …

The movement to free Al Jazeera journalists (# FreeAJStaff), imprisoned by Egyptian
authorities, utilized social media over almost 2 years, between 2013 and 2015.# FreeAJStaff …

Abstract In Kerala, South India, young people, especially women, are encouraged to
become nurses in order to migrate abroad for work and thereby improve the financial status …

As hydro-meteorological hazards are predicted to become more frequent and intense in the
future, scholars and policymakers are increasingly concerned about their security …

Bridging the divide: A multidisciplinary analysis of diversity research and the implications for
public relations Page 1 Research Journal of the Institute for Public Relations Vol. 3, No. 1 (August …

The apparent ubiquity of protest in recent years and the rise of Occupy movements across
the world have fuelled claims that a new style of mobilisation is emerging which is markedly …

Drawing on evidence from the 2011 Egyptian uprising, this article demonstrates how the use
of two social media platforms–Facebook and Twitter–contributed to a discrete mobilizational …

In this article we develop the notion of the technology-media-movements complex (TMMC)
as a field-definition statement for ongoing inquiry into the use of information and …