Legitimizing wikipedia: How US national newspapers frame and use the online encyclopedia in their coverage

Journalism Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-160

  Messner, Marcus ^a   South, Jeff ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Framing; Journalism; News sources; Newspapers; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054792338     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2010.506060     Document Type: Article

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