作者: Mark de Socio
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8330.2009.00749.X
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摘要: In summer 2006, Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, a political geographer and editor- in-chief of the journal Arab World Geographer, was arrested by Israeli police after taking photographs rural landscapes in Northern Galilee. Falah subsequently held for 23 days, incommunicado, without charge. An international campaign to "Free Ghazi" launched his family, friends colleagues, largely over academic listservs other media. Utilizing social network analysis contextualizing within structures telecommunications technologies, purpose this paper is assess various factors that contributed campaign's coalescence, its rapid development, global reach.