The internet rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan: A case study in web site community building run amok

Communication Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 340-361

  Bostdorff, Denise M ^a  

^a The College of Wooster   (United States)

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EID: 43149091790     PISSN: 10510974     EISSN: 17451035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10510970409388623     Document Type: Article

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