Political conflict and public perceptions of government surveillance on the internet: An experiment of online search terms

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-212

  Best, Samuel J ^a   Krueger, Brian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Internet; Motivated reasoning; Political conflict; Political participation; Public opinion; Search engine; Surveillance; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950774493     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802294479     Document Type: Article

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