Lifestyles, reliance on traditional news media and online news adoption

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-382

  Chan, Joey KA Ching ^a   Leung, Louis ^b  

^a Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Lifestyles; News media reliance; Online news attributes; Online newspaper adoption; VALS

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444500227     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805052281     Document Type: Article

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