Mayors' usage of blogs in local election campaign: The Spanish case study

International Journal of Electronic Governance

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-413

  Criado, J Ignacio ^a   Martínez Fuentes, Guadalupe ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2.0 philosophy; Blogging; Electoral campaign; Political leaders; Web campaigning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857709010     PISSN: 17427509     EISSN: 17427517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2010.038608     Document Type: Article

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