News sites' position in the mediascape: Uses, evaluations and media displacement effects over time

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-496

  de Waal, Ester ^a   Schoenbach, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Displacement effects; Internet; Media perceptions; Media use; News sites; Newspapers; Online news; Online newspapers; Panel study; Traditional media

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952279818     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809341859     Document Type: Article

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