Qualifying engagement: A study of information and communication technology and the global social justice movement in Aotearoa New Zealand

Communication Monographs

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-74

  Ganesh, Shiv ^a   Stohl, Cynthia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Brokerage; Global Social Justice Organizing; Information and Communication Technology; Metaphors; Organizational Communication; Social Movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951041675     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750903514284     Document Type: Article

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