A SOCIOTECHNICAL VIEW OF INFORMATION DIFFUSION AND SOCIAL CHANGES : FROM REPRINT TO RETWEET

Onook Oh · Nargess Tahmasbi · Hejamadi Raghav Rao · Gert‐Jan de Vreede

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This research in progress study explores the role of Twitter during the 2011 Egypt revolution. Drawing on a research method of historians who investigated the role of print technology during the Protestant Reformation in Western Europe during the early 16th century, we explicate the socio-technical implications of information diffusion through retweeting during radical social changes. Through retweet analysis, we identify inseparable dynamics of (1) existence of a few opinion leaders, (2) a large number of supporting individuals, and (3) the emergence of attendant collective sense-making process as a critical antecedent of radical social changes.

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