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Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the ´Arab Spring´.

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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; Saba Bebawi and Diana Bossio PART I: INTERACTIONS AND CHALLENGES 1. Journalism during the Arab Spring: Interactions and Challenges; Diana Bossio 2. The Arab Spring on Twitter: Language Communities in hashtagegypt and jhashtaglibya; Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 3. Al Jazeera English´s Networked Journalism During the 2011 Egyptian Uprising; William Lafi Youmans PART II: POLITICAL EFFECTS 4. Syrian Activists in Russia: The limits of Visibility in a Hostile Host Country; Mervi Pantti and Evgeniya Boklage 5. Twitter-ized Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire; Robert Imre and Stephen Owen PART III: PREDICTING THE FUTURE 6. A Shift in Media Power: The Mediated Public Sphere During the ´Arab Spring´; Saba Bebawi Index

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Saba Bebawi, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Evgeniya Boklage, Free University of Berlin, Germany Diana Bossio, Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tim Highfield, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Robert Imre, University of Newcastle, Australia Stephen Owen, University of Newcastle, Australia Mervi Pantti, University of Helsinki, Finland William Lafi Youmans, George Washington University, USA

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