Leading with hearts and minds: emotion contagion in China's online activism.
Who are the prominent actors leading the diffusion of emotional messages in China's online activism? What roles do they play in this process in an emotion-discouraging context? In this exploratory study, we examine networked patterns of anger diffusion within the Red-Yellow-Blue kindergarten child a...
| Published in: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 22; no. 5/6; pp. 728 - 751 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep-Nov2023
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