Online petitions: New tools of secondary analysis?

Qualitative Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 715-727

  Briassoulis, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

internet mediated research; online petitions; qualitative data; research methodology; secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650239976     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794110380530     Document Type: Article

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