Ten “Rs” of social reaction: Using social media to analyse the “post-event” impacts of the murder of lee rigby

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 454-474

  Innes, Martin ^a   Roberts, Colin ^a   Preece, Alun ^a   Rogers, David ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict dynamics; Counterterrorism; Lee rigby; Social media; Social reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978968799     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: 15561836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2016.1180289     Document Type: Article

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