Elite tweets: Analyzing the twitter communication patterns of Labour party peers in the House of Lords

Policy and Internet

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Adi, Ana ^a   Erickson, Kristofer ^b   Lilleker, Darren G ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

elite groups; House of Lords; semantic analysis; social network analysis; Twitter; U.K. Labour Party

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900849901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI350     Document Type: Article

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