Discourses of technology and liberation: State aid to net activists in an era of "twitter revolutions"

Communication Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-253

  Christensen, Christian ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 80052592709     PISSN: 10714421     EISSN: 15477487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2011.597263     Document Type: Article

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