"Rejected Bits of Program Code": Why Notions of "Politics 2.0" Remain (Mostly) Unfulfilled

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-85

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Interactivity; political communication; structuration theory; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874521353     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2012.719727     Document Type: Article

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