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 Authors: Scott A. Eldridge II, Lucía García-Carretero, Marcel Broersma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2019-03-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1825