YouTube politics: YouChoose and leadership rhetoric during the 2008 election

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 124-142

  Church, Scott H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

2008 presidential election; Content analysis; Grounded theory; Leadership discourse; Postmodern; Rhetoric; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049346684     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681003748933     Document Type: Article

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