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TY - JOUR
T1 - Internet Authorship
T2 - Social and Political Implications within Kyrgyzstan
AU - Srinivasan, Ramesh
AU - Fish, Adam
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - This paper presents the results of our corroborated study of grassroots Internet sites and authors in the nation of Kyrgyzstan, exceptional in Central Asia for its deregulated Internet policy. The study presents a set of semistructured interviews with notable grassroots Internet authors and activists, including bloggers, forum participants, and journalists, and analyzes this data via a critical communication and media studies lens to point to significant implications on emergent social, cultural, and political movements in the nation.
AB - This paper presents the results of our corroborated study of grassroots Internet sites and authors in the nation of Kyrgyzstan, exceptional in Central Asia for its deregulated Internet policy. The study presents a set of semistructured interviews with notable grassroots Internet authors and activists, including bloggers, forum participants, and journalists, and analyzes this data via a critical communication and media studies lens to point to significant implications on emergent social, cultural, and political movements in the nation.
KW - Kyrgyzstan
KW - blogging
KW - community
KW - social networks
KW - Central Asia
KW - Internet
KW - citizen journalism
KW - transnational
U2 - 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01453.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01453.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 559
EP - 580
JO - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
JF - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
SN - 1083-6101
IS - 3
ER -