Interpreting Hashtag Politics: Policy Ideas in an Era of Social Media

by Stephen Jeffares

Book Overview

Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349470821
• ISBN13: 9781349470822
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"