Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement

Social Networks

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 177-190

  Ackland, Robert ^a   O'Neil, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Collective identity; Content analysis; Digital trace data; Environmental social movement; Hyperlink network; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961011687     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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