Bringing it all back home? Social media practices by Swedish municipalities

European Journal of Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 681-695

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Internet; methodology; political communication; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890521702     PISSN: 02673231     EISSN: 14603705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267323113502277     Document Type: Article

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