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This article analyses the ways TV audiences, politicians, and journalists used Twitter in order to participate in the discourses activated around Italian political talk shows, during the ‘permanent’ campaign for the 2013 general elections (from September 2012 to June 2013; 11 shows; 1076 episodes).

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The article suggests a newer way to work on big data in order to gather a first-hand narrative of participation, left online by networked publics, without forgetting the contribution older techniques could make to the understanding of hybrid practices of political communication and participation.

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This page is a summary of: Hybrid spaces of politics: the 2013 general elections in Italy, between talk shows and Twitter, Information Communication & Society, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2015.1006658.
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