"Not This One": Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 848-870

  Tufekci, Zeynep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

activism; Arab Spring; internet; media; social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879156644     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213479369     Document Type: Article

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