Technologies of political mobilization and civil society in Greece: The wildfires of summer 2007

Convergence

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-161

  Tsaliki, Liza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blogs; Civil society; Cynicism; Participation; Political mobilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952305934     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856509357675     Document Type: Note

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