Selling cyberspace: Constructing and deconstructing the rhetoric of community

Southern Communication Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-199

  Silver, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 85007863418     PISSN: 1041794X     EISSN: 19303203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10417940509373326     Document Type: Article

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