The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest

Convergence

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 287-312

  Mercea, Dan ^a   Funk, Andreas ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collective action; motivational coordination; participation; resource mobilization; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971449386     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856514563663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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