War on Instagram: Framing conflict photojournalism with mobile photography apps

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1233-1248

  Alper, Meryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apps; embedded journalism; Hipstamatic; Instagram; mobile communication; photography; photojournalism; smartphone; war

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910627489     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813504265     Document Type: Article

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