China's propaganda in the information age: Internet commentators and the weng'an incident

Issues and Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 149-180

  Hung, Chin F U ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Internet commentators; Online public opinion; Propaganda; Weng'an incident

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957532299     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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