Seizing the moment: The presidential campaigns’ use of Twitter during the 2012 electoral cycle

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1473-1490

  Kreiss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electoral politics; political communication; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983252166     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814562445     Document Type: Article

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