Online Social Networks: An Exploratory Study of Community and Civic Engagement
The optimistic vision of the Internet as an “electronic agora” has been a common theme of discourse among scholars studying the impacts of computer technology on everyday life. In opposition to this view stand pessimistic scholars who insist that meaningful democratic discourse must be direct and cl...
Main Author: | Waite, Brandon Cordell |
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Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange
2008
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Online Access: | http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/450 |
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