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Social Media and Local Government: Citizenship, Consumption and Democracy

Nick Ellison School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael Hardey Hull-York Medical School, UK
Pages 21-40 | Published online: 08 Jul 2013

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