PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Sorting out details of the federal government shutdown is trickier because social media allow for quick changes in political strategy, a U.S. researchers said.
Heather LaMarre, assistant professor of strategic communication at Temple University's School of Media and Communication in Philadelphia, says Republicans and Democrats are tapped into social media, where citizens are expressing their opinions on a platform unavailable during the last shutdown in the mid-1990s.