[Air-L] social media theories

[Carolyn Guertin]

This issue of the journal Convergence (20.4) might be useful to you:

Special issue on:  New Media, Global Activism and Politics
http://con.sagepub.com/content/20/4.toc

Carolyn Guertin

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Sukaina Ehdeed <smtehdeed1 at sheffield.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> Are there any theories/models related to social media use/political
> communication/information aspects?
>
> I am doing a research in relation to social media use in Libyan revolution
> context. My main objectives are:
> -To find out how social media has been used among Libyans during the
> revolutionary and post-revolutionary period, through conducting
> semi-structured interviews and doing content analysis of sample of public
> Facebook pages.
>
> -To explore young Libyans’ perception regarding the impact of social media
> on their views and attitudes in relation to the revolution and
> post-revolutionary period.
>
> Do you have any suggestions? Will be helpful for me if you share your
> knowledge.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Sukaina Ehdeed
> PhD Student, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK
> Lecturer, Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Tripoli,
> Libya
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-- 
Carolyn Guertin, PhD
Professor, Digital Technologies, Faculty of Education, UOIT
author of *Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art
*(Continuum,
2012)

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