Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis of Twitter and Occupy Wall Street

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 110-126

  Tremayne, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion; Network analysis; Occupy Wall Street; scale shift; social media; social movements; social networking; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890565831     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2013.830969     Document Type: Article

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