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Just “performance nonsense”?: How recipients process news photos of activists’ symbolic actions about climate change politics Cover

Just “performance nonsense”?: How recipients process news photos of activists’ symbolic actions about climate change politics

By: Antal Wozniak  
Open Access
|Jul 2021

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Language: English
Page range: 61 - 78
Published on: Jul 6, 2021
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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