When more media equals less news: Patterns of content homogenization in Argentina's leading print and online newspapers

Political Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-180

  Boczkowski, Pablo J ^a   De Santos, Martin ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Media sociology; News diversity; News homogeneity; Online journalism; Online news; Online newspapers; Print newspapers; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249015255     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600701313025     Document Type: Article

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