The part played by gentiles in the flow of Mass communications: On the ethnic utopia of personal influence

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 608, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-114

  Peters, John Durham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

American democracy; Communication research; Ethnicity; Intellectual history; Jewish studies; Social science; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750022138     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206292425     Document Type: Article

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