'Fuck the clowns from Grease!!' Fantasies of participation and agency in the YouTube comments on a Cypriot Problem documentary

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1001-1016

  Carpentier, Nico ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cyprus; fantasy; media studies; participation; politics; psychoanalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903770544     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.875582     Document Type: Article

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