Hi! We have written a paper titled "Collective memory building in Wikipedia: The case of North African uprisings" in which we look at how hundreds of editors of Wikipedia collaborated in building the collective memory of the Egyptian revolution, in real time, as the traumatic events unfolded. Wikipedia is of course different from Facebook and Twitter but it is built in a bottom-up fashion by "normal people" as the other social media. One of the differences is that while on Facebook or Twitter you can write what you want, on Wikipedia you have to mediate with other people's perspectives and (try to) reach a Neutral Point Of View. This is especially hard for traumatic events and during the first days. I'm going to present the paper at WikiSym (3 October 2011, Mountain View) so any suggestion/criticism is more than welcome! The paper can be found at http://www.gnuband.org/papers/collective_memory_building_in_wikipedia_the_ca... Paolo On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, nativebuddha <nativebuddha@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have evidence (or links to studies) that show the impact, or lack thereof, of social media on the Arab spring? This cause-effect model still circulates in the mediasphere, but what is the evidence show?
Thanks.
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