Socio-communicational structure among political actors on the web in South Korea: The dynamics of digital presence in cyberspace

New Media and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 403-423

  Park, Han Woo ^a   Kim, Chun Sik ^b   Barnett, George A ^c  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Hyperlink; Internet; Political networks; South Korea; Web sphere; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942694138     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444804042522     Document Type: Article

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