#iranElection: Quantifying Online Activism
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Gaffney, Devin
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2010-03-15
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In a retrospective analysis of the Iran national election protests, the meteoric rise of the Twitter platform as a purported tool of dissidence has become a subject of debate and importance in the burgeoning field of online activism. By using methods of data collection novel to Web 2.0 social media applications, can a finer granularity be achieved in directly measuring the impact of the internet on politics and society?
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D. Gaffney, “#Iranelection: Quantifying Online Activism,” Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line,” Raleigh, 26-27 April 2010.