Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media: How Online Networks Accelerated the Marriage Equality Movement

by Rhonda Gibson

Book Overview

According to polls, from the early noughties to now, public support for same-sex marriage has increased dramatically. Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media asks how such a rate of attitude change came about and, more specifically, what role social media played.

Digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have proved to be useful outlets for political expression, and Rhonda Gibson explores how this came to benefit the marriage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138894850
• ISBN13: 9781138894853
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"