The interplay between media-for-monitoring and media-for-searching: How news media trigger searches and edits in Wikipedia

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2740-2759

  Geiß, Stefan ^a   Leidecker, Melanie ^b   Roessing, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic transactional model; information seeking; news media; user generated content; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994469183     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815600281     Document Type: Article

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