Media coverage of Public Health Epidemics: Linking framing and issue attention cycle toward an integrated theory of print news coverage of epidemics

Mass Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-160

  Shih, Tsung Jen ^a   Wijaya, Rosalyna ^a   Brossard, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 57749125759     PISSN: 15205436     EISSN: 15327825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15205430701668121     Document Type: Article

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