Social media and political participation: Are Facebook, Twitter and TouTube democratizing our political systems?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6847 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 25-35

  Effing, Robin ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^a   Huibers, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elections; Internet; Participation; Politics; Social Media

Indexed keywords

ELECTIONS; FACEBOOK; INTERNET TOOLS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NATIONAL ELECTIONS; NETHERLANDS; PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL PARTIES; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POLITICS; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; RESEARCH AGENDA; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80052714662     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23333-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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