A pipeline of tweets: environmental movements’ use of Twitter in response to the Keystone XL pipeline

Environmental Politics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 223-247

  Hodges, Heather E ^a   Stocking, Galen ^b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmentalism; media effects; social media; social movements

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTALISM; MEDIA ROLE; MOBILIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84952630484     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2015.1105177     Document Type: Article

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