The political subject of blogs

Information Polity

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 97-109

  Siapera, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autonomy; Blogs; Habermas; Poster; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953861642     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ip-2008-0144     Document Type: Article

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