Democracy on the web: Assessing the deliberative qualities of internet forums

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 684-703

  Loveland, Matthew T ^a   Popescu, Delia ^a  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

deliberation; e Democracy; internet; symbolic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859120748     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2010.521844     Document Type: Article

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