POLITICAL NETWORKS ON TWITTER: Tweeting the Queensland state election

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 667-691

  Bruns, Axel ^a   Highfield, Tim ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; elections; politics; Queensland; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878796879     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.782328     Document Type: Article

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