Election news in Sweden and the United States: A comparative study of sources and media frames

Journalism

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 604-619

  Dimitrova, Daniela V ^a   Strömbäck, Jesper ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cross cultural research; election news; framing of politics; media framing; news sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862188944     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884911431546     Document Type: Article

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