Is the voter only a tweet away? Micro blogging during the 2009 European Parliament election campaign in the Netherlands

First Monday

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Vergeer, Maurice ^a,b   Hermans, Liesbeth ^a   Sams, Steven ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053500869     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v16i8.3540     Document Type: Article

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