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ARTICLES

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

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Pages 196-216 | Received 17 Dec 2010, Accepted 20 May 2011, Published online: 06 Jul 2011

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