Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 259-279

  Juris, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860699617     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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