Social media as beat: Tweets as a news source during the 2010 British and Dutch elections

Journalism Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 403-419

  Broersma, Marcel ^a   Graham, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Election campaign; Journalism; News reporting; Newspapers; Social media; Sources; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986304316     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2012.663626     Document Type: Article

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