Construction of death in H1N1 news in The Times of India

Journalism

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 731-753

  Krishnatray, Pradeep ^a   Gadekar, Rahul ^b  

^a GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MICA   (India)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Death; Framing; H1N1 flu crisis; India; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905008929     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884913496497     Document Type: Article

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