How could you think that?!?!: Understanding intentions to engage in political flaming

New Media and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1201-1219

  Hutchens, Myiah J ^a   Cicchirillo, Vincent J ^b   Hmielowski, Jay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; discussion; flaming; Internet; politics; verbal aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938565341     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814522947     Document Type: Article

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