Source cues in online news: Is the proximate source more powerful than distal sources?

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 719-736

  Kang, Hyunjin ^c   Bae, Keunmin ^c   Zhang, Shaoke ^c   Sundar, S Shyam ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE;

EID: 84862913955     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769901108800403     Document Type: Article

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