Web campaigning in the 2009 European Parliament elections: A cross-national comparative analysis

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 128-148

  Vergeer, Maurice ^a   Hermans, Liesbeth ^a   Cunha, Carlos ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DOWLING COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

European Parliament elections; multilevel analysis; political communication; Web 1.0; Web 2.0; web feature analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874309916     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812457337     Document Type: Article

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