Assessing the radical democracy of Indymedia: Discursive, technical, and institutional constructions

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-38

  Pickard, Victor W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative Media; Cyberactivism; Democratic Theory; Independent Media Centers; Indymedia; Networks; Radical Democracy; Social Movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646044390     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180600570691     Document Type: Article

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