Diffusion of news of the shuttle Columbia disaster: The role of emotional responses and motives for interpersonal communication

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-101

  Ibrahim, Amal ^a   Ye, Jiali ^a   Hoffner, Cynthia ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Emotion; Interpersonal; Motives; News Diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866147832     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090802021970     Document Type: Article

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