Investigating people's news diets: How online users use offline news

Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-91

  Trilling, Damian ^a   Schoenbach, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Northwestern University in Qatar   (Qatar)

Author keywords

complementarity; functions of news; news diets; news use; online news; substitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924874398     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/commun-2014-0028     Document Type: Article

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