Mundane internet tools, mobilizing practices, and the coproduction of citizenship in political campaigns

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 755-771

  Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activism; campaigns; citizenship; civic engagement; elections; ethnography; information and communication technologies; internet; participant observation; political participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960904362     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810380863     Document Type: Article

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