"The vulgar spirit of blogging": On language, culture, and power in Persian weblogestan

American Anthropologist

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 651-662

  Doostdar, Alireza ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Iran; Social status; Speech genres; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844230175     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.651     Document Type: Article

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