The effects of print news photographs of the casualties of war

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 150-168

  Pfau, Michael ^a   Haigh, Michel ^a   Fifrick, Andeelynn ^a   Holl, Douglas ^a   Tedesco, Allison ^a   Cope, Jay ^a   Nunnally, David ^a   Schiess, Amy ^a   Preston, Donald ^a   Roszkowski, Paul ^a   Martin, Marlon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILITARY GOVERNMENT; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WAR; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745290640     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900608300110     Document Type: Article

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