Online Rebellion: Self-Organized Criticality of Contemporary Protest Movements
The theory of self-organized criticality (SOC) is applicable for explaining powerful surges of protest activity on social media. The objects of study were two protest clusters. The first was a set of Facebook groups that promoted the impeachment of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. The second...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-05-01
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Series: | SAGE Open |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020923354 |