Citizen camera-witnessing: Embodied political dissent in the age of 'mediated mass self-communication'

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 753-769

  Andén Papadopoulos, Kari ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Citizen journalism; crowd sourced video; digital activism; media witnessing; Neda Agha Soltan; social media; the 2011 Arab uprisings; transnational protests; user generated content; visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904413710     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813489863     Document Type: Article

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