BETWEEN BROADCASTING POLITICAL MESSAGES AND INTERACTING WITH VOTERS: The use of Twitter during the 2010 UK general election campaign

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 692-716

  Graham, Todd ^a   Broersma, Marcel ^a   Hazelhoff, Karin ^a   van 't Haar, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

content analysis; election campaign; politicians; social media; Twitter; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878804503     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.785581     Document Type: Article

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