How organizations framed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic via social and traditional media: Implications for U.S. health communicators

Public Relations Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-244

  Liu, Brooke Fisher ^a   Kim, Sora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Framing theory; Health communication; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960698993     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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