All the news that's fit to post: A profile of news use on social networking sites

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-119

  Glynn, Carroll J ^a   Huge, Michael E ^a   Hoffman, Lindsay H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic patterns; Internet; Media; News use; Political communication; Social networking

Indexed keywords

CONCERTED EFFORT; DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS; FACEBOOK; KEY VARIABLES; LITTLE RESEARCH; MEDIA; MEDIA OUTLETS; MINOR COMPONENTS; NEWS USE; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80255137043     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.08.017     Document Type: Article

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