for over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the middleeast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. the re...

Social media is believed to be responsible for facilitating critical communication often required to fuel momentum preceding the events of civil unrest. The information technology revolution has brought with it an explosion of novel data sources data such as Twitter, Facebook, news/blogs, Wikipedia that didn’t previously exist or were not accessible to researchers. This paper focuses on an ongo...

Fast, automatic processing of texts posted on the Internet to find positive and negative attitudes towards products and companies gave sentiment analysis, an area of text mining, a significant application in predicting trends on stock markets. Opinion mining further extended the scope of the search to help companies, such as those specialising in media analysis, to automate extraction of people...

Political cartoons have long been regarded as a significantly influential medium of media throughout the American Revolution. The subjects these are often embodiments political and racial stereotypes prevalent in Britain America during Revolution era. However, role feminine figures illustrated ‘vessels’ embodying countries or symbols communicating said early prints remains considerably broad, t...

“Egypt is offline”. At the time when this news came over the ticker on 2011-01-28, the so-called “Facebook revolution” had already reached a new high. According to Hosni Mubarak, who was still president of Egypt to that time, and according to his regime, it was no longer sufficient to sporadically shut off cellular networks and social media services, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Instead, the...