Letters to Sarah: Analysis of email responses to an online editorial

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 533-557

  Ogan, Christine ^a,b   Çiçek, Filiz ^a   Özakça, Muzaffer ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Journalism and Informatics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative media; Common Dreams; Content analysis; Editorial; Email; Israel; Letters to editor; Linking; Palestinians; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944508294     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805054117     Document Type: Article

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