New media and small group organizing

Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 114-133

  Hollingshead, Andrea B ^a,b   Contractor, Noshir S ^c  

^a Annenberg School for Communications   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446211304.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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