Twitter adoption in congress

Review of Network Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chi, Feng ^a   Yang, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

diffusion of technology; network effects; political marketing; social learning; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052018334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14469022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1255     Document Type: Article

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