Hi Sukaina, You might be interested in a chapter by Majid KhosraviNik and me, in which we set out some of the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in studying social media from a critical, discursive perspective. One of the examples we use is the Tahrir Square protests (though we don’t have much room to go into it in the chapter, unfortunately): KhosraviNik, M., & Unger, J. W. (2015). Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies. In R. Wodak, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse studies. (3rd ed.). London: Sage. Best, Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 17 Apr 2016, at 23:55, Sukaina Ehdeed <smtehdeed1@sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:smtehdeed1@sheffield.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi all, Are there any theories/models related to social media use/political communication/information aspects? I am doing a research in relation to social media use in Libyan revolution context. My main objectives are: -To find out how social media has been used among Libyans during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period, through conducting semi-structured interviews and doing content analysis of sample of public Facebook pages. -To explore young Libyans’ perception regarding the impact of social media on their views and attitudes in relation to the revolution and post-revolutionary period. Do you have any suggestions? Will be helpful for me if you share your knowledge. Thanks, -- Sukaina Ehdeed PhD Student, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK Lecturer, Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Tripoli, Libya _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/