Performing citizenship on YouTube: Activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video Fitna

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 249-262

  van Zoonen, Liesbet ^a   Vis, Farida ^a   Mihelj, Sabina ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Fitna; Islam; Voice; Wilders; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960650471     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2010.511831     Document Type: Article

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