The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 363-380

  Conway, Bethany A ^a   Kenski, Kate ^a   Wang, Di ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Campaigns; New media; Presidential primary; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AGENDA SETTINGS; CAMPAIGN; INTERMEDIA; MEDIA CONTENT; NEW MEDIA; POLITICAL CAMPAIGN; PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937253864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12124     Document Type: Article

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