From selfie to #sealfie: Nature 2.0 and the digital cultural politics of an internationally contested resource

Geoforum

Volumn 79, Issue , 2017, Pages 114-123

  Hawkins, Roberta ^a   Silver, Jennifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Celebrity; Political ecology; Sealing; Social media

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; POLITICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CANADA;

ASTRONOTUS;

EID: 85002777422     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.06.019     Document Type: Article

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