Politics, elections and online campaigning: Past, present... and a peek into the future

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-17

  Vergeer, Maurice ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Internet; political communication; politics 2.0; social media; web campaigning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874325707     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812457327     Document Type: Article

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