Online news: User agreements and implications for readers

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 602-618

  Ekstrand, Victoria Smith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MEDIA INDUSTRY;

EID: 0036770786     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900207900305     Document Type: Article

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