“Hope in a hashtag”: the discursive activism of #WhyIStayed

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 788-804

  Clark, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

digital media; Hashtag feminism; social movements; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959055836     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1138235     Document Type: Article

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