YouTube interactions between agonism, antagonism and dialogue: Video responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1283-1300

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

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cybermetrics; democratic interaction; Fitna; Islam; social network; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055192079     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811405020     Document Type: Article

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