The Web 2.0 Election: Voter learning in the 2008 presidential campaign

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 22-43

  Towner, Terri L ^a   Dulio, David A ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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