Nonprofit Organizations’ Perceptions and Uses of the Internet

Television & New Media

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 407-428

  Kenix, Linda Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

democracy; internet; nonprofit; public sphere; social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998080688     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476408315501     Document Type: Article

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