Unaffiliated socialization and social media recruitment: Reflections from occupy the Netherlands

Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 232-247

  Mercea, Dan ^a   Nixon, Paul G ^a   Funk, Andreas ^a,b  

^a THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203798331     Document Type: Chapter

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