Candidate Networks, Citizen Clusters, and Political Expression: Strategic Hashtag Use in the 2010 Midterms

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 659, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 149-165

  Bode, Leticia ^a   Hanna, Alexander ^b   Yang, Junghwan ^b   Shah, Dhavan V ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

campaign communication; hashjacking; online communities; social media; Tea Party; Twitter; U.S. elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927145447     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214563923     Document Type: Article

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