Memorializing crisis: The Oklahoma city national memorial as renewal discourse

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-183

  Veil, Shari R ^a   Sellnow, Timothy L ^a   Heald, Megan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Memorial; Organizational learning; Renewal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953865806     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2011.557390     Document Type: Article

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