Voices of the marginalized on the Internet: Examples from a website for women of South Asia

Journal of Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 492-510

  Mitra, Ananda ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; WOMENS ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 4444369459     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/joc/54.3.492     Document Type: Article

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