Follow the leader! Direct and indirect flows of political communication during the 2013 Italian general election campaign

New Media and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1025-1042

  Vaccari, Cristian ^a   Valeriani, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Celebrity politics; election campaigns; lurkers; political communication; political discussion; social media and politics; Twitter; two step flow of communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937200384     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813511038     Document Type: Article

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