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COLLECTIVE ACTION ON THE WEB

A cross-cultural study of social networking sites and online and offline activism in the United States and Latin America

Summer Harlow University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA E-mail: [email protected]Correspondence[email protected]
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Dustin Harp Department of Communication, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 196-216 | Received 17 Dec 2010, Accepted 20 May 2011, Published online: 06 Jul 2011

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