Mediati(zi)ng EU politics: Online news coverage of the 2009 European parliamentary elections

Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-346

  Michailidou, Asimina ^a   Trenz, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

democracy; EU; internet; mediatization; political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956665257     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMM.2010.018     Document Type: Article

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