"Carrying online participation offline" - Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline ties

Journal of Communication

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 564-586

  Wojcieszak, Magdalena ^a  

^a IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTALISM; INTERNET; MEDIA ROLE; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70350395456     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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