@article{ref1,
title="The Contribution of Facebook to the 2011 Tunisian Revolution: A Cyberpsychological Insight",
journal="Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking",
year="2012",
author="Marzouki, Yousri and Skandrani-Marzouki, Inès and Béjaoui, Moez and Hammoudi, Haythem and Bellaj, Tarek",
volume="15",
number="5",
pages="237-244",
abstract="The influence of Facebook in social life keeps constantly growing. Recently, the communication of information has been vital to the success of the Tunisian revolution, and Facebook was its main &quot;catalyst.&quot; This study examines the key reasons that explain Facebook's contribution to this historical event, as perceived by Tunisian Internet users. To do so, we launched this study 5 days after the fall of the regime using an online questionnaire in which participants (N=333) first rated the importance of Facebook in the Tunisian revolution and then explained the reasons for their ratings. A cluster analysis based on the Euclidean distance between the most frequent words in the participants' text corpus (6,640 words), revealed three main clusters that we interpret as follows: 1: Facebook political function, 2: Facebook informational function, and 3: Facebook media platform function. It is likely that these factors reflect the dynamic of Tunisian cyberspace and the Tunisian Internet users' collective consciousness during the revolution.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2152-2715",
doi="10.1089/cyber.2011.0177",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2011.0177"
}