Coproduction or cohabitation: Are anonymous online comments on newspaper websites shaping news content?

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 470-487

  Nielsen, Carolyn E ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; comments; gatekeeping; interactivity; journalists; mutual shaping; newspapers; online; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898860231     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813487958     Document Type: Article

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