Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media

By Rolf T Wigand and Merlyna Lim

Book Overview

Part I: Concepts, Theories, and Methodologies.- 1. Sentiment Analysis in Social Media; G. Paltoglou.- 2. Emotion Analysis on Social Media - Natural Language Processing Approaches and Applications; D. Das, S. Bandyopadhyay.- 3. Discovering Flow of Sentiments and Transient Behavior of Online Social Crowd: Can Social Insects be Far Behind?; G. Ghosh et al.- 4. Collective Emotions Online; A. Chmiel et al.- 5. Evaluation of Media-based Social Interactions: Linking Collective Actions to Media Types, Applications and Devices in Social Networks; A. Keller Gomes, M. da Gra?a Campos Pimentel.- Part II: Applications.- 6. The Studies of Blogs and Online Communities: From Information to Knowledge and Action; E. Todeva, D. Keskinova.- 7. Using Contemporary Collective Action to Understand the Use of Computer Mediated Communication in Virtual Citizen Science; J.T. Reed et al.- 8. Socially Networked Citizen Science and the Crowd-sourcing of Pro-environmental Collective Actions; J.L. Dickinson, R.L. Crain.- Part III: Case Studies.- 9. The Spanish "Indignados" Movement: Time Dynamics, Geographical Distribution, and Recruitment Mechanisms; J. Borge-Holthoefer et al.- 10. The Strength of Tweet Ties: How Twitter helped Frame the Egyptian Protests; R. Schroeder et al.- 11. The Arab Spring in North Africa: Still Winter in Morocco?; R. S. Robinson, M.J.C. Parmentier.- 12. "Hit the Road, Hijabis!" The Polarized Context for Virtual Muslim Solidarities; R.S. Robinson.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3709119480
• ISBN13: 9783709119488
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"