Under surveillance: Examining facebook's spiral of silence effects in the wake of NSA internet monitoring

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 296-311

  Stoycheff, Elizabeth ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Privacy; Public opinion; Spiral of silence; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MONITORING; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84978872479     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077699016630255     Document Type: Article

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