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Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of Quran on Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy
While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice a…
Against Marrying a Stranger Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Dawood, Norah Abokhodair, Houda El Mimouni +1
Websites and applications that match and connect individuals for romantic purposes are commonly used in the Western world. However, there have not been many previous investigations…
Privacy and Twitter in Qatar: Traditional Values in the Digital World
Norah Abokhodair, Sofiane Abbar, Sarah Vieweg +1
We explore the meaning of privacy from the perspective of Qatari nationals as it manifests in digital environments. Although privacy is an essential and widely respected value in m…
Dissecting a Social Botnet: Growth, Content and Influence in Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Daisy Yoo, David W. McDonald
Social botnets have become an important phenomenon on social media. There are many ways in which social bots can disrupt or influence online discourse, such as, spam hashtags, scam…
Privacy & Social Media in the Context of the Arab Gulf
Norah Abokhodair, Sarah Vieweg
Theories of privacy and how it relates to the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) have been a topic of research for decades. However, little attention has been paid t…
Heading for the Clouds: Implications for Cloud Computing Adopters
Norah Abokhodair, Hazel Taylor, Surry Jones Mowery +1
Cloud computing projects have many implications, including issues such as security, compliance, funding, cohesion with existing systems, operational resource requirements, and numb…
Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Norah Abokhodair
The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after…