Media credibility and cognitive authority. the case of seeking orienting information

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Savolainen, Reijo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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