How public relations professionals are managing the potential for sabotage, rumors, and misinformation disseminated via the internet by computer hackers

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-33

  Basso, Joseph ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hackers; Internet; Misinformation; Public relations; Rumor; Sabotage; Survey

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

INTERNET;

PUBLIC RELATIONS;

EID: 0031094641     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.557516     Document Type: Article

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