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A typology of political participation online: how citizens used Twitter to mobilize during the 2015 British general elections

Anamaria Dutceac SegestenDepartment of European Studies, Lund University, Lund, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael BossettaDepartment of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8611-5487View further author information
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Pages 1625-1643 | Received 22 Feb 2016, Accepted 17 Oct 2016, Published online: 06 Nov 2016

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