Connective labor and social media: Women's roles in the 'leaderless' Occupy movement

Convergence

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 438-460

  Boler, Megan ^a   Macdonald, Averie ^a   Nitsou, Christina ^a   Harris, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connective labor; direct action democracy; emotional labor; gender; horizontalism; hybrid social movements; ICTs and social media; Occupy Wall Street; participatory culture; women activists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911902336     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856514541353     Document Type: Article

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