Blogging down the dictator?: The Kyrgyz revolution and samizdat websites

International Communication Gazette

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-50

  Kulikova, Svetlana V ^a   Perlmutter, David D ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

'Tulip revolution'; Blog; Internet; Kyrgyzstan; Managed democracy; Samizdat; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845811473     PISSN: 17480485     EISSN: 17480493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1748048507072777     Document Type: Article

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