Audience Clicks and News Placement: A Study of Time-Lagged Influence in Online Journalism

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 505-530

  Lee, Angela M ^a   Lewis, Seth C ^b   Powers, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

audiences; gatekeeping; journalism; metrics; new media; online news

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899407089     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650212467031     Document Type: Article

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