New media, micromobilization, and political agenda setting: Crossover effects in political mobilization and media usage

Information Society

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Bekkers, Victor ^a   Beunders, Henri ^a   Edwards, Arthur ^a   Moody, Rebecca ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Micro to mass media crossovers; Micromobilization; New media; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960577876     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2011.583812     Document Type: Article

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