Activism

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Activism. / Neumayer, Christina.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. ed. / Mona Baker; Bolette B. Blaagaard; Henry Jones; Luis Pérez-González. Routledge, 2020. p. 1-6.

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Harvard

Neumayer, C 2020, Activism. in M Baker, BB Blaagaard, H Jones & L Pérez-González (eds), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. Routledge, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619811

APA

Neumayer, C. (2020). Activism. In M. Baker, B. B. Blaagaard, H. Jones, & L. Pérez-González (Eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (pp. 1-6). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619811

Vancouver

Neumayer C. Activism. In Baker M, Blaagaard BB, Jones H, Pérez-González L, editors, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. Routledge. 2020. p. 1-6 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619811

Author

Neumayer, Christina. / Activism. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. editor / Mona Baker ; Bolette B. Blaagaard ; Henry Jones ; Luis Pérez-González. Routledge, 2020. pp. 1-6

Bibtex

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