Tweets and retweets: Twitter takes wing in government

Information Polity

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-224

  Wigand, F Dianne Lux ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen engagement; diffusion; microblogging; social media; social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886993408     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-2011-0241     Document Type: Article

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