The Internet in Flux: Twitter and the Interpretative Flexibility of Microblogging

Frontiers in New Media Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 222-240

  van Dijck, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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