creator Roback, Andrew creator Hemphill, Libby Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions. Submitted by Libby Hemphill (lhemphil@iit.edu) on 2012-12-03T21:48:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Roback & Hemphill CSCW 2013 Poster.pdf: 112174 bytes, checksum: 366440990d289e79febe83def2fdacf0 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-12-03T21:48:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roback & Hemphill CSCW 2013 Poster.pdf: 112174 bytes, checksum: 366440990d289e79febe83def2fdacf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 2012-12-03 2013

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