The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone

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The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone. / Tollmann, Vera.
Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Hrsg. / Birgit Schneider; Thomas Nocke. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2014. S. 249-272 (Image; Band 55).

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in SammelwerkenForschungbegutachtet

Harvard

Tollmann, V 2014, The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone. in B Schneider & T Nocke (Hrsg.), Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Image, Bd. 55, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, S. 249-272. https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839426104.249

APA

Tollmann, V. (2014). The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone. In B. Schneider, & T. Nocke (Hrsg.), Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations (S. 249-272). (Image; Band 55). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839426104.249

Vancouver

Tollmann V. The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone. in Schneider B, Nocke T, Hrsg., Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2014. S. 249-272. (Image). doi: 10.1515/transcript.9783839426104.249

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