Of big birds and bayonets: hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 390-406

  Freelon, Deen ^a   Karpf, David ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

debates; elections; political humour; qualitative; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920078187     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.952659     Document Type: Article

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