Essays about: "Zachary Alfred"

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  1. 1. Tweeting against corruption: Fighting police bribery through online collective action

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Zachary Alfred; [2014]
    Keywords : Bribery; collective action; corruption; Twitter; Web 2.0; new media; Kenya; police;

    Abstract : Efforts to utilise Twitter to improve communication in Kenya between officials at the Kenya Police and Ministry of Interior, and Kenyan citizens, are researched specifically addressing efforts to use Twitter to report and combat police corruption. The goal is to assess efforts to use the social networking platform to improve communication channels between officials and citizens, through a mixed methods approach incorporating a content analysis of thousands of tweets sent by four separate government Twitter accounts, as well as interviews with Kenyans who have interacted with the accounts on Twitter. READ MORE