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Political participation in the digital technology era: a symposium on Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies By Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani

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Political participation in the digital technology era: a symposium on Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies By Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2022

Rosa Borge Open the ORCID record for Rosa Borge [Opens in a new window] ,
Shelley Boulianne ,
James Dennis ,
Cristian Vaccari  and
Augusto Valeriani
Rosa Borge*
Affiliation:
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Shelley Boulianne
Affiliation:
MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
James Dennis
Affiliation:
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Cristian Vaccari
Affiliation:
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Augusto Valeriani
Affiliation:
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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*Corresponding author. Email: rborge@uoc.edu
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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , July 2023 , pp. 273 - 291
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