I Love Big Bird: How journalists tweeted humor during the 2012 presidential debates

Digital Journalism

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 211-228

  Mourão, Rachel ^a   Diehl, Trevor ^b   Vasudevan, Krishnan ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

humor; journalists; normalization; presidential debates; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977492924     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2015.1006861     Document Type: Article

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