Functional Forms of Symbolic Crises in the News: Implications for Quantitative Research

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 365-373

  Denham, Bryan E ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda Setting; Cumulative Distributions; Moral Panic; News Content; Regression Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961303408     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2014.963222     Document Type: Article

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