Snowflake white and politically right: Photographic framing in news media coverage of stem cell research

Visual Communication Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-31

  Dahmen, Nicole Smith ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85055386135     PISSN: 15551393     EISSN: 15551407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15551390802620498     Document Type: Article

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