Following Local Television News Personalities on Twitter: A Uses and Gratifications Approach to Social Networking

Electronic News

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 145-157

  Greer, Clark F ^a   Ferguson, Douglas A ^b  

^a POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

social networks; television news; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876468380     PISSN: 19312431     EISSN: 1931244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1931243111420405     Document Type: Article

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