Socialization or rewards? Predicting U.S. scientist-media interactions

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-314

  Dunwoody, Sharon ^a   Brossard, Dominique ^a   Dudo, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIA; PREDICTION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349647744     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900908600203     Document Type: Article

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