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Macro weather and micro blogging: content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter

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Macro weather and micro blogging : content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter. / Veltri, Giuseppe; Atanasova, Dimitrinka.

In: Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 26, No. 6, 01.08.2017, p. 721-737.

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Veltri, G & Atanasova, D 2017, 'Macro weather and micro blogging: content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter', Public Understanding of Science, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 721-737. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515613702

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Veltri, G., & Atanasova, D. (2017). Macro weather and micro blogging: content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter. Public Understanding of Science, 26(6), 721-737. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515613702

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Veltri G, Atanasova D. Macro weather and micro blogging: content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter. Public Understanding of Science. 2017 Aug 1;26(6):721-737. Epub 2015 Nov 26. doi: 10.1177/0963662515613702

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Veltri, Giuseppe ; Atanasova, Dimitrinka. / Macro weather and micro blogging : content analysis, media ecology and the sharing of climate change on Twitter. In: Public Understanding of Science. 2017 ; Vol. 26, No. 6. pp. 721-737.

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