Policy influence and influencers online and off.
Social media is an important arena for policy contestation. Although online social media debates can yield notable power over political processes offline, little research has examined the relationship between policy actors' influence in offline policymaking and social media policy arenas. We explore...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 349 - 368 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2024
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