A Comparative Analysis of Social Media Platforms and the Effects of the Internet Cut-Off for Egypt's Social Transformation Movements

Edward Bernroider; G. Harindranath; Sherif Kamel

A Comparative Analysis of Social Media Platforms and the Effects of the Internet Cut-Off for Egypt's Social Transformation Movements

Edward Bernroider
, G. Harindranath
, Sherif Kamel

Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceedings

Abstract

Social media have been implicated in the recent social movements in much of the Arab world. This study examines the use of social media (SM) platforms, namely Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in the movements that took place in Egypt during 2011-2013. In particular, we explore the relative usefulness of SM affordances for each platform and relate to affordances that were reported to be significant during Egypt’s social transformation movement in a previous study. We also investigate usage levels for each platform over the period of our study and examine how SM users perceived the effects of the Internet cut-off, which blocked access to these platforms for several days at a critical point in the movement. We do so using a survey of university students, who formed a significant group in Egypt’s social movements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM)
Editors	Conf-IRM
Place of Publication	Cape Town, South Africa
Publisher	AIS Association for Information Systems
Pages	1 - 12
Publication status	Published - 2016

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

502050 Business informatics
504007 Empirical social research
102015 Information systems
508

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Bernroider, Edward ; Harindranath, G. ; Kamel, Sherif. / A Comparative Analysis of Social Media Platforms and the Effects of the Internet Cut-Off for Egypt's Social Transformation Movements. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM). editor / Conf-IRM. Cape Town, South Africa : AIS Association for Information Systems, 2016. pp. 1 - 12

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A Comparative Analysis of Social Media Platforms and the Effects of the Internet Cut-Off for Egypt's Social Transformation Movements. / Bernroider, Edward; Harindranath, G.; Kamel, Sherif.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM). ed. / Conf-IRM. Cape Town, South Africa: AIS Association for Information Systems, 2016. p. 1 - 12.

Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceedings

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