Framing the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses: Political blogs and second-level intermedia agenda setting

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 500-519

  Heim, Kyle ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Blogs; Framing; Political campaigns

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884647907     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077699013493785     Document Type: Article

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