Online social networks and micro-blogging in political campaigning: The exploration of a new campaign tool and a new campaign style

Party Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 477-501

  Vergeer, Maurice ^a,b   Hermans, Liesbeth ^a   Sams, Steven ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

elections; political campaigning; social networking; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876523236     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068811407580     Document Type: Article

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