Journalists’ Use of Political Tweets: Functions for journalistic work and the role of perceived influences

Digital Journalism

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1155-1172

  Metag, Julia ^a   Rauchfleisch, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

agenda building; journalism; survey; Twitter; Twitter metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994571190     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2016.1248989     Document Type: Article

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