Changing the world one webpage at a time: Conceptualizing and explaining Internet activism

Mobilization

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-446

  Earl, Jennifer ^a   Kimport, Katrina ^b   Prieto, Greg ^a   Rush, Carly ^c   Reynoso, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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