Tweeting #Palestine: Twitter and the mediation of Palestine

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 539-555

  Siapera, Eugenia ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

activism; mediation; Palestine; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907464557     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877913503865     Document Type: Article

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