Activists' communication in a post-disaster zone: Cross-media strategies for protest mobilization in L'Aquila, Italy

Mediation and Protest Movements

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-203

  Padovani, Cinzia ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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