Public opinion on National Security Agency surveillance programs: A multi-method approach

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 129-141

  Reddick, Christopher G ^a   Chatfield, Akemi Takeoka ^b   Jaramillo, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizen centric e governance; Critical discourse analysis; E government; Government surveillance; Logistic regression analysis; Public opinion; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928769751     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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