"There's got to be a review democracy": Communicative capitalism, neoliberal citizenship and the politics of participation on the consumer evaluation website Yelp.com

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 607-625

  Kuehn, Kathleen Mary ^a  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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