Inventing the Election: Civic Participation and Presidential Candidates' Websites

Computers and Composition

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 416-431

  Dadas, Caroline E ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic rhetoric; Digital rhetoric; Election; Interface; Invention; Participation; Politics; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349150870     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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