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The Agenda Setting Journal
Vol. 5:2 (2021) ► pp.219–242

Twitter images across boundaries

Comparing the use of images in political posts from six nations

| Elon University School of Communications
| University of Miami School of Communication
Article outline
  • International Twitter comments and cultural context
    • Visual agenda-setting
  • Data collection
  • Results of stage 1: Content analysis
  • Results of stage 2: Textual analysis of images on Twitter
  • Discussion
  • Limitations
  • References
Published online: 7 February 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.20004.oba
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