Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Interactions and Challenges. Journalism during the Arab Spring: Interactions and Challenges / Diana Bossio
  • The Context for Discussion of the Arab Spring Protests
  • Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring
  • Social Media Revolutions?
  • The Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring
  • The Arab Spring on Twitter: Language Communities in #egypt and #libya / Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield
  • Al Jazeera English's Networked Journalism During the 2011 Egyptian Uprising / William Lafi Youmans
  • Networked Journalism
  • Al Jazeera English and Networked Journalism
  • Political effects. Syrian activists in Russia: the Limits of Visibility in a Hostile Host Country / Mervi Pantti and Evgeniya Boklage
  • Diaspora Activism as Personalised Civic Action
  • Publicising the Protest: the Syrian diaspora as a key activist cluster
  • Media Activism in the Syrian Diaspora in Russia
  • Practices and Networks
  • Online and Offline Mobilisation of Support
  • High-risk Activism in Russia
  • Twitter-ized Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire / Robert Imre and Stephen Owen
  • The Revolution will (not) be Tweeted: Protests and Political Mobilisation in Iran
  • Protests and Cyber-utopianism in the Ukraine: the Orange revolution
  • Ukrainian and Iranian Protests and the Problematisation of Online Networks
  • Predicting the Future. A Shift in Media Power: The Mediated Public Sphere During the "Arab Spring" / Saba Bebawi
  • Centres of Power and the Public Sphere
  • Institutional Journalists using Social Media
  • Social Media using Institutional Media Reports
  • Social Media as Independent Media
  • A Power Shift?