Inside the blogosphere: A taxonomy and framing analysis of abortion weblogs

Social Science Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 616-624

  Park, Sung Yeon ^a,b   Yun, Gi Woong ^a,c   Holody, Kyle ^d   Yoon, Ki Sung ^e   Xie, Shuang ^f   Lee, Sooyoung ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

^d Department of Public Health   (United States)

^e The Catholic Diocese of Busan   (South Korea)

^f NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Content analysis; Framing; Media blog; Online; Politics; Search and snowball; Weblog; Weblog categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888286160     PISSN: 03623319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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