Online political participation, civic talk, and media multiplexity: How Taiwanese citizens express political opinions on the Web

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-44

  Hsieh, Yuli Patrick ^a   Li, Meng Hao ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

civic engagement; digital inequality; ICT use; political communication; political talk; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889571132     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.833278     Document Type: Article

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