Gatekeeping, Indexing, and Live-Event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News?

Political Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 363-380

  Livingston, Steven ^a,b   Bennett, W Lance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event driven news; Gatekeeping; Indexing; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344062644     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600390244121     Document Type: Article

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