Online news users’ sense of community: Is geography dead?

Journalism Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-360

  Mersey, Rachel Davis ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geography; Journalism; Local news; Newspapers; Online; Sense of community

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950755637     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512780902798687     Document Type: Article

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