Refugees and Network Publics on Twitter: Networked Framing, Affect, and Capture

This article constitutes a big data study of Twitter during the peak of the so-called refugee crisis in the period between October 2015 and May 2016. The article analyzed almost 7.5 million tweets collected through hashtags such as #refugee, #refugeecrisis, # flüchtling, and others. Theoretically, t...

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Main Authors: Eugenia Siapera, Moses Boudourides, Sergios Lenis, Jane Suiter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-03-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118764437