Time, place, technology: Twitter as an information source in the Wisconsin labor protests

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-72

  Veenstra, Aaron S ^a   Iyer, Narayanan ^a   Hossain, Mohammad Delwar ^a   Park, Jiwoo ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen journalism; Labor; Protest mobilization; Twitter; Wisconsin protests

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN JOURNALISM; HASHTAGS; INFORMATION SOURCES; MOBILE USERS; NEWS SOURCES; PROTEST MOBILIZATION; TWITTER; WISCONSIN;

MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84887217626     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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