Exploring news apps and location-based services on the smartphone

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-456

  Weiss, Amy Schmitz ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Journalism; Location based; Mobile news apps; Smartphones

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; MASS MEDIA; MOBILE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84884652914     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077699013493788     Document Type: Article

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