Top users and long tails: Twitter and instagram use during the 2015 norwegian elections

Social Media and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Larsson, Anders Olof ^a  

^a WESTERDALS OSLO SCHOOL OF ARTS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Election; Instagram; Norway; Political communication; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042091906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305117713776     Document Type: Article

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