Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 367-374

  Gaby, Sarah ^a   Caren, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; images; information and communications technology; movement recruitment; Occupy movement; social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868304807     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2012.708858     Document Type: Article

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