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Collective sense-making through the Twitter service during the 2011 Egypt revolution

  • University of Nebraska Omaha
  • Hanyang University

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Abstract

This study explores the role of Twitter during the 2011 Egypt revolution. Drawing on the body of literatures on collective behavior in general and social movement in particular, we investigate the concept of sense-making which is considered as a key aspect of collective behavior. Our special focus will be placed on analyzing the changing patterns of hashtags by applying the Markov-Switching Model. The analysis of hashtags is expected to explicate (1) how the collective sense-making process emerges over time through Hashtags, and (2) what the implications of those sense-making processes are in the particular situation of the 2011 Egypt revolution. A few theoretical and practical implications will be discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
Pages3583-3592
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 2012
EventInternational Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Dec 16 2012Dec 19 2012

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
Volume4

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period12/16/1212/19/12

Keywords

  • Collective sense-Making
  • Hashtag
  • Information diffusion
  • Social media
  • Social movement
  • The 2011 Egypt revolution
  • Twitter

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