Solidarity in Social Media: when users abandon their comfort zone - The Charlie Hebdo case

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Comunicación y Redes Sociales
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Published: 01-07-2015
Accepted: 07-07-2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v13i2.888
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social media, users behaviour, event impact, behavioural change - solidarity, charlie hebdo
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Enrique Herrera-Viedma
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Juan Bernabé-Moreno
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Carlos Porcel Gallego
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María de los Ángeles Martínez Sánchez
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Abstract

The fear of sharing information experiments a decrease as new generations start being active in Social Media platforms. Everybody behaves very homogeneously within their own community, following recurrent communication patterns. But when a tragic event shakes people’s minds, they feel the impulse to break these patterns and communicate their feelings to a bigger audience. In this paper, we analyse this phenomenon, dissecting the communication changes over time, identifying new patterns and discussing our findings in the context of a real scenario, namely the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): Communication and Social Networks

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Herrera-Viedma, E., Bernabé-Moreno, J., Porcel Gallego, C., & Martínez Sánchez, M. de los Á. (2015). Solidarity in Social Media: when users abandon their comfort zone - The Charlie Hebdo case. Journal ICONO 14, 13(2), 6-22. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v13i2.888

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