Browsing by Subject "Twitter"
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Making History or Celebrating Change? The Role of Twitter in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
(2012-08-30)The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the popular protest movement that led to its success represent a significant departure from recent Egyptian history. Plagued by an authoritarian government and weak civil society, the ... -
Shark Week and Public Perceptions of Sharks
(2019-04-12)Perceptions of predators, and the type of language used when describing them, can influence a person’s decision whether or not to support wildlife conservation. Many shark species are important apex predators that are found ... -
The Adjudicatory Audible: The Impact of Social Media on the Punishments of NFL Athletes
(2016-01-31)Under its Collective Bargaining Agreement, the National Football League (NFL) has the ability to punish players who have been charged with a crime or arrested. Individual teams have the ability to punish players for off-field ... -
Tweeting Feminism: African Feminisms, Digital Counterpublics and The Politics of Gendered Violence
(2019-05)Tweeting feminism is a digital ethnographic and archival study of the ways in which Kenyan feminists appropriate Twitter as a site for community building. Firstly, I explore the mutually enabling modes of gendered violence ...
