When Burglar Alarms Sound, Do Monitorial Citizens Pay Attention to Them? The Online News Choices of Journalists and Consumers During and After the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle

Political Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-366

  Boczkowski, Pablo J ^a   Mitchelstein, Eugenia ^a   Walter, Martín ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

campaigns; content analysis; journalists; media coverage; news audiences; news media; online news; presidential elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868098130     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2012.722173     Document Type: Article

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