Citizen-government collaboration on social media: The case of Twitter in the 2011 riots in England

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-357

  Panagiotopoulos, Panagiotis ^a,c   Bigdeli, Alinaghi Ziaee ^b   Sams, Steven ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; England riots; Online research methods; Public engagement; Social media; Twitter; UK local government

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938293911     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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