Playing with politics: Political fans and Twitter faking in post-broadcast democracy

Convergence

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-461

  Wilson, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

faking; fans; mediatized politics; mobile media; performance; play; post broadcast democracy; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155151820     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856511414348     Document Type: Article

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