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To begin with, Kavanaugh, et al. (2012) argued demographics could have played an important role in social media’s impact on events because young people, who make up a disproportionately large part of the population, are actively involved in social media networks and tend to seek and share information on the Internet. These attributes of this age group contributed to the impact SNS had during mass disruptionsthe uprising in Egypt because a huge portion of the population were Internet savvy and used the Internet to find information through various sources and subsequently share it with their family and friends.

Another factor Kavanaugh et al. (2012) highlighted which affected social media’s impact on events, is the role opinion leaders play in society, those with a higher education, a large follower base on Twitter, an elite type of citizen (such as actors or activists), and are respected by members of society. Kavanaugh et al. (2012) argued Oopinion Lleaders could play an important role in crisis communications because they seek and evaluate information from media and share their interpretation with their social networks (Kavanaugh, et al., 2012). Comment by McCagherty: This list is not parallel, which interferes with understanding.

The final influential factor Kavanaugh et al. (2012) highlighted was the tight-knit social networks in Arab cultures. Kavanaugh et al. (2012) claimed this could contribute significantly to information dissemination because the strong social ties create frequent information sharing between families and friends. This frequent information sharing provides a greater opportunity to coordinate activities and disseminate information with a large and trusted social network.

Reference

Kavanaugh, A., Hassan, R., Elmongui, H. G., Magdy, M., Sheetz, S.D., Yang, S.,… Shoemaker, D. (2012). Between a rock and a cell phone: Communication and information technology use during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. Proceedings of the 9th International ISCRAM Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Retrieved from http://www.iscramlive.org/ISCRAM2012/proceedings/185.pdf

You have clearly identified the main claim of the article and the supporting details. You have also used very strong transitions between each paragraph indicating the ideas connections to one another and to the main claim. (I’ve made a few corrections to grammar) Very well done!