Digital image politics: The networked rhetoric of anonymous

Global Discourse

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 326-349

  Jarvis, Jason L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymous; Image politics; Meme; Network; Public screen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979875982     PISSN: 23269995     EISSN: 20437897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2014.923633     Document Type: Article

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