The response in twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera

Crisis

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 392-395

  Scourfield, Jonathan ^a   Colombo, Gualtiero ^a   Evans, Rhiannon ^a   Jacob, Nina ^a   Le Zhang, Meng ^a   Burnap, Pete ^a   Edwards, Adam ^a   Housley, William ^a   Williams, Matthew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Soap opera; Social media; Suicide; Television; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; HUMAN; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE; TELEVISION; UNITED KINGDOM;

HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TELEVISION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85002539071     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000377     Document Type: Article

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