Online communities in Saudi Arabia: Evaluating the impact on culture through online semi-structured interviews

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Al Saggaf, Yeslam ^a   Williamson, Kirsty ^a,b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous communication; Ethnography; Online communities; Saudi Arabia; Web based

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544513512     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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