Gender, Twitter and news content an examination across platforms and coverage areas

Journalism Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 490-505

  Armstrong, Cory L ^a   Gao, Fangfang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; News organizations; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960551157     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2010.527548     Document Type: Article

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