'Bring back Hitler's gas chambers': Asylum seeking, Nazis and facebook - a discursive analysis

Discourse and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-33

  Burke, Shani ^a   Goodman, Simon ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accusations of racism; Computer mediated Communication; discourse analysis; Nazis; race talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856479280     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926511431036     Document Type: Article

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