Weblog campaigning in the German bundestag election 2005

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 504-520

  Albrecht, Steffen ^a   Lübcke, Maren ^a   Hartig Perschke, Rasco ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Campaign; Election; Germany; Network analysis; Political communication; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148873268     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439307305628     Document Type: Article

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