Creating digital enclaves: Negotiation of the internet among bounded religious communities

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 709-724

  Campbell, Heidi A ^a   Golan, Oren ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

authority; community boundaries; digital enclaves; internet; Israel; Orthodox Judaism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959723850     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443711404464     Document Type: Article

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