February 4, 2013

Faculty member and alumnus team up to co-author book chapter

Melanie Mills Basma Botros

A Communication Studies professor from Eastern Illinois University has teamed up with one of her former students to co-author a chapter in a recently published book.

Dr. Melanie Mills and Basma Botros are co-authors of a chapter entitled, "Collectively We Unite: A Case Study of Social Networking for a Cause."  The chapter appears in a new book, Social Media Go to War: Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter, published recently by Marquette Books in Spokane.  The chapter was developed from Basma's Master's thesis, which was advised by Dr. Mills.

Thirty-nine scholars contributed 29 chapters in the wide-sweeping analysis of social media use in war, insurrections, revolutions and quests for social justice in Cuba, Georgia, Egypt, India, Iran, Jordan, Thailand, Tunisia and the United States.  The 524-page book also looks at the philosophy, theories and policies behind social media before launching into case studies around the world.