Personalised Tweeting: The emerging practices of journalists on Twitter

Digital Journalism

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 888-907

  Canter, Lily ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

branding; journalism; practices; social media; Twitter; verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977104080     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.973148     Document Type: Article

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