The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

By Gilad Lotan, E. Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce. 2011

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Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square (2012, background): “Much of the early news of the protests to outside world spread through Twitter, and then to traditional news media (Lotan et al., 2011).”
Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods (2013, background): “We sought to identify two key variables: firstly, the type of interaction, based on whether the interaction was a retweet or @mention; secondly, the type of source being interacted with, adapting the actor type classifications from Lotan et al. (2011).”
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions (2014, methodology): “These choices of dates were made according to an analysis of news timelines for major events during the Arab Spring, 3 and to correspond with similar time frames used in previous research of this kind (e.g., Lotan et al., 2011).”
CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA (2012, unknown): “2010), political uprisings (Lotan et al .”
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, unknown): “Social media has been used to organize political revolutions (e.g., the Arab Spring; Lotan et al., 2011), influence presidential elections (e.”
Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter* (2013, background): “However, it remains that the usage of profile locations is often contemplated in papers that discuss the virtual data shadows to geographically bound situations such as the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Iran election protests of 2009 (Hecht et al. 2011; Lotan et al. 2011; Gaffney 2010).”
How Twitter is Changing the Nature of Financial News Discovery (2016, background): “They often provide first glimpses into major social and political unrest [31] as well as disasters [52].”
Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media (2012, background): “Such work has generally focused on tracking the spread of discrete behaviors, such as using a piece of software [16], reposting duplicate or nearduplicate content [10,20,21], voting in political elections [17], or”
Online Harassment and Content Moderation (2018, background): “is supported the rapid gain in popularity of Twier, and helped it play a critical role in many recent social movements – from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Maer [12, 29].”
Does ‘bigger’ mean ‘better’? Pitfalls and shortcuts associated with big data for social research (2015, background): “Between 2010 and 2011, during the protests, researchers (Lotan et al. 2011) monitored over 90,000 unprotected Twitter accounts in Egypt and Tunisia.”
A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets? The Consequences of Citizens’ Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting with Party Candidates (2016, background): “Twitter has been considered the quintessential social media platform for mobilising citizens for political events with numerous studies assessing its mobilising potential and effects, especially with regards to protesting and social movement action (Lotan et al., 2011; González-Bailón et al., 2011; ”
Twitter as Data (2018, background): “To overcome this, researchers can take a sample of accounts and manually research them, generating reasonable estimates of accounts’ profession, age, gender, and political beliefs (Lotan et al., 2011; Borge-Holthoefer et al., 2015; Driscoll and Steinert-Threlkeld, 2017).”
The limits of crisis data: analytical and ethical challenges of using social and mobile data to understand disasters (2015, background): “Particular types of tweeting, retweeting, and linking practices on Twitter can make for ‘‘information cascades’’ (Lotan et al. 2011) that can evolve into a ‘‘drama of instantaneity’’, where tweets are ‘‘personal, emotive, and involved the sharing of opinion and fact without distinguishing between…”
A Manifesto, in 140 Characters or Fewer: Social Media as a Tool of Rebel Diplomacy (2017, background): “In so doing, rebels engage in what Schelling calls a ‘strategic move’, which consists of attempting to shape the perceptions of 4 Lotan et al. 2011, 1379.”
Social Media and Corruption (2018, result): “…spikes in protest participation, which is consistent with the voluminous anecdotal evidence on the critical role the new media played in the uprisings of Arab Spring and elsewhere (e.g., Lotan et al. 2011, Sabadelo 2011) and a survey study of protest participants in Tahrir Square (Tufekci, 2011).”
Twitter data: What do they represent? (2014, background): “…centres (including, for example, the Digital Media Initiative, University of Amsterdam [15] [26]; Microsoft Research New England, Boston [3] [21]; the Social Media Lab, University of Washington [34] [35] ), often by developing longer-term strategic research agendas rather than engaging in…”
Sociality Through Social Network Sites (2013, background): “2010a, 2010b), how social media connects journalists and citizens during political uprisings (Lotan et al. 2011), or how constructing one's profile can affect one's view of self (Gonzales and Hancock 2008).”