Deliberation of the Scientific Evidence for Breastfeeding: Online Comments as Social Representations

Science Communication

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 778-801

  Len Ríos, María E ^a   Bhandari, Manu ^a   Medvedeva, Yulia S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

breastfeeding; journalism; news; online comments; science; social representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921451943     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547014556195     Document Type: Article

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