(De)personalization of campaign communication: Individualization and hierarchization in party press releases and media coverage in the 2008 Austrian parliamentary election campaign

Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-39

  Lengauer, Günther ^a   Winder, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Election campaigns; Election news; Media coverage; Personalization; Press releases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878247225     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/commun-2013-0002     Document Type: Article

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