A Hashtag Worth a Thousand Words: Discursive Strategies Around #JeNeSuisPasCharlie After the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Shooting

Social Media and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Giglietto, Fabio ^a   Lee, Yenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charlie Hebdo; discursive strategy; hashtag; sensitive topic; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043760110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305116686992     Document Type: Article

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