A vision of social media in the Spanish smartest cities

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 521-544

  Sáez Martín, Alejandro ^a   Haro de Rosario, Arturo ^a   Caba Perez, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Facebook; ICT; Intelligent city; Local government; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916214999     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TG-03-2014-0010     Document Type: Article

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