Surfing in Multiple Tongues: Search Engines and Middle East Ethnopolitics.

Ethnopolitical organizations try to reach varied audiences. Some of those audiences aredomestic and some are international. One of the key tools that organizations are using toimpact the political discourse is the internet. One key gatekeeper in the process of usingthe internet is the search engine. Here we examine what factors determine the success oforganizations in generating a high number of websites that mention their organization ingoogle internet hit returns as one way to measure organizational success in reaching outto a wider audience. We explore this question within the context of the Minorities atRisk Organizational Behavior dataset that has information on 98 ethnopoliticalorganizations active in the Middle East. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]