Listening In: Building a Profile of Podcast Users and Analyzing Their Political Participation

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 388-401

  Chadha, Monica ^a   Avila, Alex ^b   Gil de Zúñiga, Homero ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic predictors; offline; online; podcast; podcast users; political participation; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869988986     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2012.717481     Document Type: Article

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