Amplified
messages: How hashtag activism and Twitter diplomacy converged at #ThisIsACoup
– and won, authored by PhD student Wasim Ahmed has been
published in the LSE Impact blog. The post is among the
most read this week, and has drawn retweets
from the mainstream media, and from
local community run organisations such as @HelpSheffield. Wasim noted that
the LSE impact is a fantastic platform to share blog posts, one of his
previous posts has received over 13 thousand hits.
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