Beyond just politics: A systematic literature review of online participation

First Monday

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Lutz, Christoph ^a   Hoffmann, Christian Pieter ^a   Meckel, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.5210/fm.v19i7.5260     Document Type: Article

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