The Potential and Limitations of Twitter Activism: Mapping the 2011 Libyan Uprising
This article aims to shed more light on the potentials and limitations of social media as a tool for activists. It does this by focusing on the use of one particular social media platform — Twitter — during one specific period of a certain uprising: the first 24 hours of protests in Libya during th...
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Language: | English |
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2013-03-01
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Series: | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
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Online Access: | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/475 |