A new medium for data collection: Online news discussions

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 232-236

  Poria, Yaniv ^a   Oppewal, Harmen ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communications technology; Data collection; Interaction; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986086681     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09596110310475694     Document Type: Article

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