Party profiles on the web: An analysis of the logfiles of non-partisan interactive political internet sites in the 2003 and 2004 election campaigns in Belgium

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 965-985

  Hooghe, Marc ^a   Teepe, Wouter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belgium; Campaign dynamics; Digital divide; Election campaigns; Interactive communication; Internet use; Party profile website

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049030608     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807082726     Document Type: Article

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