German politicians and their twitter networks in the bundestag election 2009

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Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Plotkowiak, Thomas ^a   Stanoevska Slabeva, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84878997718     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v18i5.3816     Document Type: Article

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