Tweeting news articles: Readership and news sections in Europe and the Americas

SAGE Open

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Bastos, Marco Toledo ^a   Zago, Gabriela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Journalism; News items; News sections; Newspapers; Readership; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901621296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244013502496     Document Type: Article

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