@inproceedings{c0b87fcd0ee948878bc12a8bda47fc09,
title = "Cross-national proximity in online social network and protest diffusion: An event history analysis of Arab spring",
abstract = "This study examines the role of online social network proximity in cross-national diffusion of offline protests. Drawn upon Valente's (1995) network diffusion model, the study operationalizes social network proximity-based protest exposure, using the international Facebook friendship share data. One year-long onsite protests during Arab Spring 2011 are examined using event history modeling. The findings offer evidence of an contemporaneous online network exposure effect on cross-national diffusion of protests. An expected lagged diffusion effect was not found, however. The paper presents an innovative approach to the scholarship of global protest diffusion and collective actions.",
author = "Kwon, {K. Hazel} and Jeff Hemsley",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani (San Diego State University) and Clay Fink (Johns Hopkins University), as well as anonymous reviewers for providing helpful comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. All rights reserved.; 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017 ; Conference date: 03-01-2017 Through 07-01-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "2146--2155",
editor = "Bui, {Tung X.} and Ralph Sprague",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017",
}