Trust, confidence, and credibility: Citizen responses on Twitter to opinion polls during the 2010 UK general election

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 850-871

  Ampofo, Lawrence ^a   Anstead, Nick ^b   O'Loughlin, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E democracy; Media studies; Politics; Social networking; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961033376     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.587882     Document Type: Article

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