YOUTUBE, TWITTER AND THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: Connecting content and circulation practices

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 421-451

  Thorson, Kjerstin ^a   Driscoll, Kevin ^a   Ekdale, Brian ^b   Edgerly, Stephanie ^c   Thompson, Liana Gamber ^a   Schrock, Andrew ^a   Swartz, Lana ^a   Vraga, Emily K ^d   Wells, Chris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupy; social media; social movements; Twitter; video; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875951820     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.756051     Document Type: Article

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