Follow the leader! Direct and indirect flows of political communication during the 2013 Italian general election campaign

This article evaluates the potential that Twitter affords politicians to communicate to citizens directly, through messages that they broadcast to users who follow them, and indirectly, to the extent that their followers autonomously re-circulate politicians’ messages to their own contacts. Analysis...

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Main Authors: Cristian Vaccari, Augusto Valeriani
Format: Default Article
Published: 2013
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Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Celebrity politics
Election campaigns
Lurkers
Political communication
Political discussion
Social media and politics
Twitter
Two-step flow of communication
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/28263
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