Gatekeeping at the Portal: An Analysis of Local Television Websites’ User-Generated Content

Electronic News

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-111

  Cleary, Johanna ^a   Bloom, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

gatekeeping theory; television station websites; user generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887052113     PISSN: 19312431     EISSN: 1931244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1931243111408389     Document Type: Article

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