How journalists verify user-generated content during terrorist crises. Analyzing twitter communication during the Brussels attacks

Social Media and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Rauchfleisch, Adrian ^a   Artho, Xenia ^a   Metag, Julia ^b   Post, Senja ^a   Schäfer, Mike S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crisis; Journalism; Sourcing; Terrorism; Twitter; UGC

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042096597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305117717888     Document Type: Article

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