Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-109

  Caiani, Manuela ^a   Wagemann, Claudius ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Network analysis; Political violence; Radicalization; Right wing extremism

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449098532     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802158482     Document Type: Article

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