Hashtagging Politics: Transnational Anti-Fracking Movement Twitter Practices

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Hopke, Jill E ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fracking; framing; Global Frackdown; shale gas; social movements; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024924672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115605521     Document Type: Article

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