Communication among young people in the #spanishrevolution: Uses of online–offline tools to obtain information about the #acampadabcn

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1287-1308

  Fernandez Planells, Ariadna ^a   Figueras Maz, Mònica ^a   Pàmpols, Carles Feixa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

15M Movement; activism; communication; indignados; information behavior; outraged; social media; social movements; spanishrevolution; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910678858     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814530097     Document Type: Article

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