Advocacy Group Messaging on Social Media: Using the Narrative Policy Framework to Study Twitter Messages about Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 119-136

  Gupta, Kuhika ^a   Ripberger, Joseph ^a   Wehde, Wesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Narrative Policy Framework; nuclear energy; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; ENERGY POLICY; NUCLEAR POWER; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84982245067     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psj.12176     Document Type: Article

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