News Frames and Story Triggers in the Media's Coverage of Human Trafficking

Human Rights Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-379

  Gulati, Girish J ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Framing; Human rights; Human trafficking; Investigative journalism; News media; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864783489     PISSN: 15248879     EISSN: 18746306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12142-010-0184-5     Document Type: Article

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