Political insights: Exploring partisanship in web search queries

First Monday

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Borra, Erik ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

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EID: 84867302476     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v17i7.4070     Document Type: Article

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