Web presence transformations in the 1990s: An analysis of press releases

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-146

  Benbunan Fich, Raquel ^a   Altschuller, Shoshana ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Content analysis; e commerce; Usability; Websites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; PRESS RELEASES; WEB PRESENCE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 18944376570     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2005.849647     Document Type: Article

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