The domestication of foreign news: News stories related to the 2011 Egyptian revolution in British, Finnish and Pakistani newspapers

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 692-707

  Alasuutari, Pertti ^a   Qadir, Ali ^a   Creutz, Karin ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; diffusion of global ideas; domestication of foreign news; Egypt; journalism; media coverage; world polity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884272979     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443713491299     Document Type: Article

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