Their two cents worth': Exploring user agency in readers comments in online news media

Observatorio

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 21-47

  Milioni, Dimitra L ^a   Vadratsikas, Konstantinos ^a   Papa, Venetia ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Audience participation; Participatory journalism; Reader comments; User generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866641698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16465954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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