Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate

Political Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 594-624

  Benkler, Yochai ^a   Roberts, Hal ^a   Faris, Robert ^a   Solow Niederman, Alicia ^a   Etling, Bruce ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

network analysis; network public sphere; political discourse; social mobilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944174312     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2014.986349     Document Type: Article

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