Getting political on network sites: Exploring online political discource on facebook

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Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Kushin, Matthew J ^a,b   Kitchener, Kelin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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