The Hashtag Game: Disrupting dissent during the Bersih 4 protest

This paper demonstrates how protest tactics, such as the use of hashtags, can be co-opted by counter-protesters, as evidenced by how the cybertroopers operated against the Bersih 4 protest in 2015. This is achieved via focusing the analysis on how geographic places were communicated on Twitter aroun...

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Main Author: Azlan, Nurul Azreen
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2020
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93844/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142312-BJA10001
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia