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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE PERSONALIZATION OF COLLECTIVE ACTION:Â Social technology and the organization of protests against the global economic crisis
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COMMUNICATION IN MOVEMENT:Â Social movements as agents of participatory democracy
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Occupy Online: Facebook and the Spread of Occupy Wall Street
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Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline
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Online Organization of an Offline Protest: From Social to Traditional Media and Back
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Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of How Advocacy Groups in the United States Perceive and Use Social Media as Tools for Facilitating Civic Engagement and Collective Action
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Talk About a Revolution: Social Media and the MENA Uprisings
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Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes
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‘The internet is here’: emergent coordination and innovation of protest forms in digital culture
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Revolutionary Tactics, Media Ecologies, and Repressive States
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Political Mobilization Through Online Social Networks
Collectiveaction2.0: The Impact of ICT-Based Social Media on Collective Action – Difference in Degree or Difference in Kind?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1979312
Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as platforms of alternative journalism: The social media account of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests
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The Mediated Crowd: New Social Media and New Forms of Rioting
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Social media and social movements
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The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network
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Social Media, Human Rights and Political Change
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Arab Revolutions and the Social Media Effect
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Social Media in the Arab World:Â Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011
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Birds of a Feather Protest Together: Theorizing Self-Organizing Political Protests with Flock Theory
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