Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-18

  Dolata, Ulrich ^a   Schrape, Jan Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

collective action; digital communities; Internet; networks; social movements; socio technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957843349     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2015.1055722     Document Type: Article

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