Creating collective attention in the public domain: Human interest narratives and the rescue of Floyd Collins

Social Forces

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-85

  Fine, Gary Alan ^a   White, Ryan D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/sof.2002.0046     Document Type: Article

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