WAVE-RIDING AND HASHTAG-JUMPING: Twitter, minority 'third parties' and the 2012 US elections

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 646-666

  Christensen, Christian ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

media studies; politics; social media; third party; twitter; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878790432     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.783609     Document Type: Article

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