Who tweets? Tracking microblogging use in the 2010 Swedish election campaign

19th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a   Moe, Hallvard ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Online politics; Social media; Sweden; Twitter; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

ONLINE POLITICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SWEDEN; TWITTER; WEB 2.0;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870639804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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