Perceiving an internet community as a “utopia”: Beliefs, norms, and resistance among older Chinese

Social Computing and Virtual Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-262

  Xie, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 79953859781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420090437     Document Type: Chapter

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