The Relative Importance of Social Media for Accessing, Finding, and Engaging with News: An eight-country cross-media comparison

Digital Journalism

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 472-489

  Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis ^a   Schrøder, Kim Christian ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Comparative research; cross media news; media use; news consumption; news media; online news; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977090754     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2013.872420     Document Type: Article

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