Spill-Over Effects Between Facebook and On/Offline Political Participation? Evidence from a Two-Wave Panel Study

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-275

  Vissers, Sara ^a   Stolle, Dietlind ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causal effects; Facebook; online and offline political participation; panel survey; political mobilization; social networking sites (SNS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905383905     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2014.888383     Document Type: Article

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