E-campaigning versus the Public Official Election Act in South Korea: Causes, consequences and implications of cyber-exile

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 388-405

  Lee, Yeon Ok ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cyber exile; E campaign; Election law; Elections; Internet; Legislation; Network analysis; Politics; Social networking sites; South Korea; YouTube

Indexed keywords

CYBER-EXILE; E-CAMPAIGN; ELECTION LAW; ELECTIONS; POLITICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOUTH KOREA; YOUTUBE;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIDEO CAMERAS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84880582150     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AP-11-2011-0044     Document Type: Article

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