A model of crowd-enabled organization: Theory and methods for understanding the role of twitter in the occupy protests

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 646-672

  Agarwal, Sheetal D ^a   Bennett, W Lance ^a   Johnson, Courtney N ^a   Walker, Shawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Collective action; Networked organization; Networks; Occupy; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011599015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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