The internet and public relations: Investigating practitioners' roles and world wide web use

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 603-622

  Porter, Lance V ^a,b   Sallot, Lynne M ^b  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0347765781     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000308     Document Type: Article

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