Disintermediation in Social Networks: Conceptualizing Political Actors’ Construction of Publics on Twitter

While often treated as distinct, both politics and journalism share in their histories a need for a public that is not naturally assembled and needs instead to be ‘constructed’. In earlier times the role of mediating politics to publics often fell to news media, which were also dependent on construc...

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Main Author: Eldridge II, Scott A. (author)
Other Authors: García-Carretero, Lucía (author), Broersma, Marcel (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i1.1825
Country:Portugal
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