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Social Movement Studies Volume 16, 2017 - Issue 4: Special Issue: Technology, Media and Social Movements. Editors: Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan.
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Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement

Saifuddin AhmedDepartment of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Kokil JaidkaDepartment of Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Republic of Singapore;Big Data Experience Laboratory, Adobe Systems Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India
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Jaeho ChoDepartment of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Pages 447-465 | Received 06 Jul 2015, Accepted 17 May 2016, Published online: 13 Jun 2016

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