Pulling the plug on electronic town meetings: Participatory democracy and the reality of the Usenet

The Politics of Cyberspace

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 18-47

  Streck, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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