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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
Subjects:	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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