Little brothers and sisters are watching: Reflexive civic watch through computer-mediated communication

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 840-859

  Häyhtiö, Tapio ^a   Rinne, Jarmo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blogging; Computer mediated communication; Individualized civic watch; Public spheres; Reflexive politics; Youtube

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249098512     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802302296     Document Type: Article

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