The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control

Environmental Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 473-491

  Haider, Jutta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

affordances; blogs; environmental information; everyday life; governmentality; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921732045     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.993416     Document Type: Article

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