Tweet, Click, Vote: Twitter and the 2010 Ottawa Municipal Election

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 412-434

  Raynauld, Vincent ^a   Greenberg, Josh ^b  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; e campaigning; municipal elections; political communication; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961290029     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2014.935840     Document Type: Article

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