The mobile phone in street protest: Texting, tweeting, tracking, and tracing

Mobile Media and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 117-133

  Neumayer, Christina ^a   Stald, Gitte ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collective action; information; mobile communication; protest; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002610861     PISSN: 20501579     EISSN: 20501587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050157913513255     Document Type: Article

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