"Your views showed true ingnorance!!!": (Mis)Communication in an online interracial discussion forum

Computers and Composition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 411-434

  McKee, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cross cultural; Cross institutional; Flaming; Identity; Interracial; Race; Racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036899101     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(02)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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