The Dynamics of Issue Frame Competition in Traditional and Social Media

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 659, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-224

  Guggenheim, Lauren ^a   Jang, S Mo ^b   Bae, Soo Young ^c   Neuman, W Russell ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; framing; mass shootings; social media; time series analysis; Twitter; word clouds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927168578     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215570549     Document Type: Article

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