Online news on Twitter: Newspapers' social media adoption and their online readership

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-74

  Hong, Sounman ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregator; Digital media; Facebook; Information cascades; Information economics; Media economics; Online media institution; Online news; Search engine; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATOR; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; ONLINE MEDIA; ONLINE NEWS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

DIGITAL STORAGE; NEWSPRINT; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INTERNET; MARKETING; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84858111384     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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