Ogan paper looks at social media, social movements
Journalism Professor Emerita Christine Ogan and School of Informatics and Computing Ph.D. candidate Onur Varol’s paper, “What is Gained and What is Left to Be Done When Content Analysis is Added to Network Analysis in the Study of Social Movement: Twitter Use During Gezi Park,” has been published in Information, Communication & Society. The article has also been published online ahead of its print publication, and its abstract is free to view.
The article assesses the roles played by Twitter users during the Turkish Gezi Park uprising by use of content analysis and network analysis.
Ogan and Varol conclude in their research that information sharing was the most frequent use of Twitter at the time of the uprising. Tweets indicating leadership within the movement made up only a small portion of the content assessed.
Through this methodology, Ogan and Varol also found similarities between Twitter users, which they used to separate users into smaller groups for further interpretations.
Ogan’s research interests combine information and communication technologies with international social and political issues, as well as gender equity in communication. Varol’s research interests include user interactions and online data as means of understanding behaviors.
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