Read my day? Communication, campaigning and councillors' blogs

Information Polity

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 41-55

  Wright, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blogs; campaigning E democracy; normalisation; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886991918     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ip-2008-0146     Document Type: Article

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