Beyond the online/offline divide: How youth's online and offline civic activities converge

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 481-498

  Hirzalla, Fadi ^a   van Zoonen, Liesbet ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

modes o.c.vic participation; offline participation; online participation; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755163980     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439310385538     Document Type: Article

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