Unsettled post-revolutionaries in the online public sphere

Sojourn

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-121

  Mayes, Warren Paul ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Diaspora; Internet; Laos; Networking; Place; Politics; Public debate; Self censorship; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649087721     PISSN: 02179520     EISSN: 17932858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/SJ24-1F     Document Type: Article

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