Web-Based Crowd Funding: Rhetoric of Success

Technical Communication

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-24

  Tirdatov, Ilya ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd funding; Crowdfunding; Marketing communication; Persuasion; Practical rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898768716     PISSN: 00493155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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