Gatekeeping Twitter: Message diffusion in political hashtags

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 260-270

  Bastos, Marco Toledo ^a   Raimundo, Rafael Luis Galdini ^a   Travitzki, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

FreeIran; FreeVenezuela; Jan25; communication theory; gatekeeping; hashtags; internet; network theory; Twitter; two step flow theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875358065     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443712467594     Document Type: Article

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