Tagging for activist ends and strategic ephemerality: Creating the Sex Work Database as an activist digital archive

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 189-204

  Ferris, Shawna ^a   Allard, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

activist digital archives; Feminist research; new media; sex work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959455037     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1118396     Document Type: Article

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