Twitter’s diffusion in sports journalism: Role models, laggards and followers of the social media innovation

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 484-501

  English, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Rogers; social media; sports journalism; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959310957     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814544886     Document Type: Article

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