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Published in: Business & Information Systems Engineering 4/2011

01-08-2011 | Editorial

From Revolution to Participation: Social Media and the Democratic Decision-Making Process

Author: Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl

Published in: Business & Information Systems Engineering | Issue 4/2011

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“Egypt is offline”. At the time when this news came over the ticker on 2011-01-28, the so-called “Facebook revolution” had already reached a new high. According to Hosni Mubarak, who was still president of Egypt to that time, and according to his regime, it was no longer sufficient to sporadically shut off cellular networks and social media services, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Instead, the entire Internet seemed to become an incontrollable threat to the governmental machinery of power which made it necessary to take this drastic step for the first time ever (Kremp 2011). What had happened? …

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Title
From Revolution to Participation: Social Media and the Democratic Decision-Making Process
Author
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl
Publication date
01-08-2011
Publisher
SP Gabler Verlag
Published in
Business & Information Systems Engineering / Issue 4/2011
Print ISSN: 2363-7005
Electronic ISSN: 1867-0202
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-011-0166-4

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