Connecting News Media Use with Gaps in Knowledge and Participation

Political Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 215-237

  Eveland, William P ^a   Scheufele, Dietram A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge gap; Newspapers; Political learning; Political participation; Television news; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034415373     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/105846000414250     Document Type: Article

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