Personalization according to politicians: A practice theoretical analysis of mediatization

Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-326

  Driessens, Olivier ^a   Raeymaeckers, Karin ^a   Verstraeten, Hans ^a   Vandenbussche, Sarah ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

in depth interview; mediatization; personalization; politics; practice theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956684699     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMM.2010.017     Document Type: Article

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