Campaign 2008: Comparing YouTube, social networking, and other media use among younger and older voters

Techno Politics in Presidential Campaigning: New Voices, New Technologies, and New Voters

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-82

  Haridakis, Paul ^a   Hanson, Gary ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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