Political performance, boundary spaces, and active spectatorship: Media production at the 2012 Democratic National Convention

Journalism

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 577-595

  Kreiss, Daniel ^a   Meadows, Laura ^a   Remensperger, John ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Media events; New media; Performance theory; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930590831     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884914525562     Document Type: Review

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