Serial activists: Political Twitter beyond influentials and the twittertariat

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2359-2378

  Bastos, Marco T ^a   Mercea, Dan ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic participation; influentials; protest hashtags; serial activists; social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990248449     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815584764     Document Type: Article

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