Stormfront is like a second home to me

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1155-1176

  De Koster, Willem ^a   Houtman, Dick ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extreme right; Internet research; Online offline; Stigmatization; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149270913     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802266665     Document Type: Article

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