Online, all the time? A quantitative assessment of the permanent campaign on Facebook

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 274-292

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Facebook; Norway; permanent campaign; political communication; social media; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954433629     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814538798     Document Type: Article

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