Linking the web and the street: Internet-based "dotcauses" and the "anti-globalization" movement

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-74

  Clark, John D ^a   Themudo, Nuno S ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Civil society; Globalization; Internet; NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations); Social movements

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNET; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POPULAR PROTEST;

EID: 30344450098     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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