Traditionalists vs. convergers: Textual privilege, boundary work, and the journalist-audience relationship in the commenting policies of online news sites

Convergence

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-143

  Robinson, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience; Authority; Comments; Convergence; Journalism; News; Newsroom; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949953915     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856509347719     Document Type: Article

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