UNTANGLING A COMPLEX MEDIA SYSTEM: A comparative study of Twitter-linking practices during three Scandinavian election campaigns

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 775-794

  Moe, Hallvard ^a   Larsson, Anders Olof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

comparison; hyperlinks; news; political communication; quantitative; Scandinavia; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878807689     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.783607     Document Type: Article

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