TWITTER AS A TECHNOLOGY FOR AUDIENCING AND FANDOM: The #Eurovision phenomenon

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 315-339

  Highfield, Tim ^a   Harrington, Stephen ^a   Bruns, Axel ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

audiencing; Eurovision; fandom; social media; television; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875949204     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.756053     Document Type: Article

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