A movement of connected individuals: Social media in the Austrian student protests 2009

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-195

  Maireder, Axel ^a   Schwarzenegger, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

community building; domestication of ICTs; social movements; social networking; web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858607169     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.589908     Document Type: Article

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