Social Media for Empowerment in Social Movements: The Case of Malaysia's Grassroots Activism

• Main Authors: Tye, Michelle, Leong, Carmen, Tan, Felix, Tan, Barney, Khoo, Ying Hooi
• Format: Article
• Published: Association for Information Systems 2018
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20447/; https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04215
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Social media plays an instrumental role in enabling and facilitating social movements. However, this role depends on the complex social issues in a civic community and dynamics of power in movement politics. Existing literature provides little insight into the formative role of social media in socia...