Organization in the crowd: Peer production in large-scale networked protests

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 232-260

  Bennett, W Lance ^a   Segerberg, Alexandra ^b   Walker, Shawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

communication as organization; connective action; crowd organization; Occupy; peer production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893395064     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.870379     Document Type: Article

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