Social media go to war
Subtitle: rage, rebellion and revolution in the age of Twitter
By: edited by Ralph D. Berenger
Publisher: Marquette Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Spokane, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9780983347675; 9780983347682
Subjects: Social media; Political aspects; Citizen journalism; Twitter; Facebook (Electronic resource); YouTube (Electronic resource)
Description: "Thirty-nine authors from around the world explore the phenomena of citizen journalism, collective action, 'smart mobs,' iconography, and even the revolutionary music of the Arab Spring in Social Media goes to War: rage, rebellion, and revolution in the age of Twitter. Twenty-eight chapters from senior and junior social media scholars cover war, insurrections, revolutions, and quests for social justice through case studies of Cuba, Georgia, Egypt, India, Iran, Jordan, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United States, where President Obama's social media usage is scrutinized by a former campaign insider. The U.S. Department of Defense's social media policies in time of conflict are reviewed, and social media usage in Wisconsin's budget battle of 2011 is analyzed."--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: "Companion volume to Global media go to war and Cybermedia go to war"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Mohammad Ibrahim Ayish; title: Introduction: Social media go to war  -- Ralph D. Berenger -- Part I. Power, politics and publics : ideologies, theories and policies underlying social media.; title: Plane talk : Mack A. Velli and the ethics of direction  -- John C. Merrill; title: Standing up : models of collective action  -- Steven J. Dick; title: The role of contemporary media in political transitions : searching for a new paradigm  -- Katharine R. Allen; title: Al Jazeera, Bab Al Hara, and social media in the resurrection of Arab nationalism  -- Sohail Dahdal; title: The social military's about face : U.S. Defense Department's changing relationship with new media  -- Jennifer A. Berenger -- Part II. Precursors of the Arab Spring : case studies of social media use around the world.; title: Filling-in-the-blanks during national crises : the good and bad of social media in Georgia  -- Byron T. Scott and Ellada Gamrekilidze; title: Collectively we unite : a case study of social networking for a cause  -- Basma Botros and Melanie Mills; title: Barack Obama, the American uprising and politics 2.0  -- Martin A. Parlett; title: Citizen journalism in Cuba : transnational advocacy via the voice of Generacìon Y  -- Katharine Reed Allen; title: The struggle for truth : the online fight for freedom before the 2011 Tunisian uprising  -- Catherine Cassara; title: Digitizing discontent : YouTube and Thailand's Red Shirt uprising  -- Melissa Wall and Treepon Kirdnak; title: Social media, students, and protests in the 'Wisconsin Spring'  -- Tim Macafee and J.J. De Simone; title: Traditional media, social media, and social change in India : the 'Free Binayak Sen' campaign -- Margaret U. D'Silva, Siobhan E. Smith and Girish Nikam; title: Part III. The 'Persian Spring': Iran's presidential election protests.; title: Emerging power of new media and post-election violence in Iran  -- Irfan Raja; title: Effective or overrated? The role of social media in Iranian mass demonstrations of June 2009  -- Cora Werwitzke and Jürgen Wilke; title: Social media and cyber activism : YouTube and Iran's election protests  -- Emily A. Ehmer; title: The power of the picture : penetration of the real on YouTube  -- Bojana Romic; title: Citizen, 'micro-journalism' : how #IranElection was exploited in politics and newspaper stories  -- Rune Saugmann Andersen -- Part IV. Social media and the 'Arab Spring'.; title: Breaking the fear barrier : cell phones, Facebook and the Tunisian revolution  -- Catherine Cassara and Lara Lengel; title: Political activism in Egypt : youths break the spiral of silence  -- Radwa A. Mobarak; title: The icon of the Egyptian revolution : using social media to topple a Mideast regime  -- Sadaf Ali and Shahira Fahmy; title: Battleground Facebook : contestation mechanisms in Egypt's 2011 revolution  -- Hanan Badr; title: Revolution in Egypt and President Obama's response : American and Middle Eastern student views  -- William R. Davie ... [et al.]; title: Social v. state media : Egypt's fight for information after the uprising  -- Elizabeth Iskander and Mina Monir; title: 'Voices of freedom' : music and revolution in North Africa  -- Lara Lengel and Catherine Cassara with Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Kaitlin Chafetz; title: The 'news blog' : social media and global news coverage of the 'Arab Spring'  -- Aziz Souai, Phil J. Auter and Dustin Domangue; title: Women and social media in the Egyptian revolution  -- Naila Hamdy and Lindsey Conlin; title: Jordan unrest : did royal tweets absorb some of the anger?  -- Hania A.M. Nashef; title: Social media go to war : summation and conclusions -- Ralph D. Berenger.