Pandemic Protesters on Telegram: How Platform Affordances and Information Ecosystems Shape Digital Counterpublics

This study analyzes how platform affordances, their appropriation by movement actors, and these actors’ leveraging of information ecosystems—in combination—helped form a digital counterpublic during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on public communication data sent by more than 300 Telegram channels...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kilian Buehling, Annett Heft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2023-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231199430