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Social Media and the Scholar in an Era of Hyper-Nationalism and Fake News

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2017

Joshua Busby*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

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Type
Symposium: Contentious Politics in the United States: What Role for Political Scientists?
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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