Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 225-243

  Harlow, Summer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; international communications; justice; social media; social movements; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858658916     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811410408     Document Type: Article

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