Title :
Social networks empowering citizens
Author :
El-Kadi, A. ; Abd-El-Hafiz, Salwa Kamal
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer Science and Engineering American University in Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
Facebook (launched in Feb. 2004) and Twitter (launched in July 2006) are two popular social networks reported to have more than 900 million and 140 million active users, respectively. Both services have affected the social life and activity of people in various ways, yet no one could have imagined that they would affect the future of nations!
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2012 IEEE 36th Annual
Conference_Location :
Izmir
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1990-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-3157
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.2012.6487434
