Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 729-747

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a   Moe, Hallvard ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

microblogging; political campaigning; social media; Sweden; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863732839     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811422894     Document Type: Article

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