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Spreading Ebola Panic: Newspaper and Social Media Coverage of the 2014 Ebola Health Crisis

Danielle K. Browna The Media School, Indiana UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Joseph Yoob Department of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
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Thomas J. Johnsonb Department of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
Pages 811-817 | Published online: 23 Feb 2018

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