Reading newspapers on the Internet: The influence of web sites' attributes

Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-45

  Flavián, Carlos ^a   Gurrea, Raquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Internet; Newspapers; Readers

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849102414     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240810849577     Document Type: Article

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