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Moral panic and alternative identity construction in usenet. / Baker, Paul.
In: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001.

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Baker P. Moral panic and alternative identity construction in usenet. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 2001;7(1). doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2001.tb00136.x

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Baker, Paul. / Moral panic and alternative identity construction in usenet. In: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 2001 ; Vol. 7, No. 1.

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