NORMALIZING TWITTER: Journalism practice in an emerging communication space

Journalism Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-36

  Lasorsa, Dominic L ^a   Lewis, Seth C ^b   Holton, Avery E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

content analysis; journalists; microblogging; norms; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855938746     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2011.571825     Document Type: Article

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