Examining Agenda Setting Effects of Twitter Users during the 2016 Uganda Presidential Election

The main aim of this thesis is to examine the agenda setting effects of Twitter users by exploring the use of hashtag #UgandaDecides and the retweet (RT) activity during the 2016 presidential election. I do this by applying the first level agenda setting theory which holds that the news media sets t...

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Main Author: Nalwoga, Lillian
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation 2017
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328134