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View ArticleAssessing Polarisation through Issue Horizon Compatibility
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View ArticleThe Intersections between Mainstream and Social Media in Flemish News
JournalismIndustrial JournalismSocial MediaTwitterECREA 2018The next speaker in this ECREA 2018 session is Steve Paulussen, whose fundamental question is who now makes the news in a hybrid cross-media...
View ArticleChanging Conceptualisations of News in a Hybrid, Multi-Platform Media...
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View ArticleTrump’s Undiplomatic Tweets, and the Response from Foreign Leaders
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