Off the wall political discourse: Facebook use in the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Information Polity

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 11-31

  Robertson, Scott P ^a   Vatrapu, Ravi K ^b   Medina, Richard ^a  

^a University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Digital government; e citizenship; e participation; social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952925581     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-2010-0196     Document Type: Article

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