The games through the NBC lens: Gender, ethnic, and national equity in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-230

  Billings, Andrew C ^a   Brown, Chelsea L ^b   Crout, James H ^b   McKenna, Kristen E ^b   Rice, Bethany A ^b   Timanus, Mary Elise ^b   Ziegler, Jonathan ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 46249117237     PISSN: 08838151     EISSN: 15506878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08838150801992003     Document Type: Article

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