Race and online content creation: Why minorities are actively participating in the Web

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 638-659

  Correa, Teresa ^a   Jeong, Sun Ho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

online content creation; race; social identity; user generated web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859115503     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2010.514355     Document Type: Article

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