Automating the News: How Personalized News Recommender System Design Choices Impact News Reception

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1019-1041

  Beam, Michael A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet news; news information processing; news knowledge; personalization; selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911950783     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650213497979     Document Type: Article

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