The aim of the project is to examine the news organisations use of social media in building a sustainable democratic public sphere in the post revolution era in Egypt. The project builds on my dissertation Journalism in a Network: Role of ICTs in Egyptian Newsrooms where I studied the convergence of ICTs into mainstream news media. The dissertation further studied journalists’ utilization of new media, especially social media, in creating a democratic network sphere that eventually lead to the 25 January revolution in Egypt.

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