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Twittersphere: Re/Tweeting the Future

  • Shekh MoinuddinEmail author
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Abstract

The Twittersphere shows both global and national perspectives in the shape of pictotextuality—in terms of both text and pictures and hashtag politics—when an issue trends for political reasons in the spatiality. The Twittersphere has controlled the flow of information or news or agenda in politics and such flows are based on network and mediated politics with respect to the number of users and social networking sites, respectively.

Keywords

Pictotextuality Hashtag politics Mediated Network Heartland 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Centre for Culture, Media and GovernanceJamia Millia IslamiaNew DelhiIndia

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