Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011
Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011
Laila Shereen Sakr
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This article studies social media and popular social movements in the early 21st century in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on Egypt. Rather than ethnography or political theory exclusively, I employ a data analytics of analyzing tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media. And then I perform the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg…
