Is Information good for deliberation? Link-posting in an online forum

Journal of Public Deliberation

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Polletta, Francesca ^a   Chen, Pang Ching Bobby ^a   Anderson, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Information; Online forums; Public deliberation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349128356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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