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Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care
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Phaedra Pezzullo’s focus on the impure politics of hashtag activism can extend this journal’s recent focuses on rhetorics of resistance in online spaces and methodologies inclusive of historically ...
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