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A Volatile Public: The 2009 Whole Foods Boycott on Facebook

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, December 2012
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Article details
Title
A Volatile Public: The 2009 Whole Foods Boycott on Facebook
Published in
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, December 2012
DOI 10.1080/08838151.2012.732142
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Mexico 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 63 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 21%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Master 7 10%
Lecturer 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 15 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 37%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 10%
Arts and Humanities 5 7%
Psychology 5 7%
Mathematics 2 3%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 15 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 October 2017.
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#21,901,385
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#519
of 715 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#236,943
of 344,360 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#5
of 9 outputs
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