Social media as a political backchannel: Twitter use during televised election debates in Norway

Aslib Journal of Information Management

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 313-328

  Kalsnes, Bente ^a   Krumsvik, Arne H ^b   Storsul, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Backchannel; Election debate; Political communication; Television; Twitter

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES; TELEVISION;

AGENDA SETTINGS; BACK CHANNELS; ELECTION DEBATE; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928225482     PISSN: 20503806     EISSN: 20503814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-09-2013-0093     Document Type: Article

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