To be or not to be Charlie Hebdo: ritual patterns of opinion formation in the social networks

Social Semiotics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 656-680

  Leone, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Charlie Hebdo; formation of opinions; narcissism; response to terrorist attacks; rituality; social networks; socio semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945469539     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2015.1080038     Document Type: Article

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