Journalism In An Era Of Big Data: Cases, concepts, and critiques

Digital Journalism

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-330

  Lewis, Seth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 84977536701     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.976399     Document Type: Editorial

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