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Rasha Abdulla

Researcher at American University in Cairo

Publications -  17
Citations -  476

Rasha Abdulla is an academic researcher from American University in Cairo. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Social media. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications receiving 434 citations. Previous affiliations of Rasha Abdulla include University of Miami.

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Protest leadership in the age of social media

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed case study on the interaction between the administrators and users of the Kullena Khaled Said Facebook page, the most popular online platform during the Egyptian revolution of early 2011, is presented.
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The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond

Rasha Abdulla
TL;DR: The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond as mentioned in this paper is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the Internet and its uses and effects in Egypt and the Arab world.
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Online news credibility

TL;DR: The number of adults using the Internet to find and read news online is on the rise as mentioned in this paper, and weekly use of online news tripled from 11 million to 36 million people in the United States between 1996 and 1998, which the center called “astonishing.
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Data critique and analytical opportunities for very large Facebook Pages: Lessons learned from exploring "We are all Khaled Said"

TL;DR: This paper discusses the empirical, Application Programming Interface (API)-based analysis of very large Facebook Pages, and outlines an exploratory approach and a number of analytical techniques that take the API and its idiosyncrasies as a starting point for the concrete investigation of a large dataset.
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Uses and Gratifications of Online and Offline News: New Wine in an Old Bottle?

TL;DR: This article explored audience members' motives and benefits of online news and offline newspapers and found that the online news consumption behavior was correlated with cognitive and affective responses to online and offline news consumption.