The (Non)Violent World of YouTube: Content Trends in Web Video

Journal of Communication

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1065-1083

  Weaver, Andrew J ^a   Zelenkauskaite, Asta ^a   Samson, Lelia ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; TELEVISION; VIDEOGRAPHY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84870894231     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01675.x     Document Type: Article

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