Exploring the online european public sphere: The web and europeanization of political communication in the European Union

Mediating Europe: New Media, Mass Communications and the European Public Sphere

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-99

  Van Os, Renée ^a   Jankowski, Nicholas W ^a,b   Wester, Fred ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences   (Netherlands)

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