Seeing red: a political economy of digital memory

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 748-760

  Reading, Anna ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data mining; digital media; digital memory; digital protest; globital memory field; political economy; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910031821     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443714532980     Document Type: Article

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