'Voting is easy, just press the red button': Communicating politics in the age of big brother

Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 231-247

  Cardo, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230294783     Document Type: Chapter

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