%0 Journal Article
%T Revisiting leadership in information and communication technology (ICT)
%A Evronia Azer
%A G Harindranath
%A Yingqin Zheng
%J New Media & Society
%@ 1461-7315
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1461444818821375
%X Scholars argue that contemporary movements in the age of social media are leaderless and self-organised. However, the concept of connective leadership has been put forward to highlight the need for movements to have figures who connect entities together. This study conducts a qualitative research of 30 interviews of human rights groups in the 2011 Egyptian revolution to address the question of how leadership is performed in information and communication technology¨Cenabled activism. The article reconceptualises connective leadership as decentred, emergent and collectively performed, and provides a broader and richer account of leadersĄ¯ roles, characteristics and challenges
%K Arab Spring
%K connective leadership
%K contemporary social movements
%K cyberactivism
%K grassroots human rights groups
%K information and communication technology¨Cenabled movements
%K social movement leadership
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818821375