Communication in movement: Social movements as agents of participatory democracy

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 800-819

  della Porta, Donatella ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ICTs; Politics; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961081091     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.560954     Document Type: Article

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