Finally informing the electorate? How the Internet got people thinking about presidential politics in 2004

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 96-111

  Dalrymple, Kajsa E ^a   Scheufele, Dietram A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 40 Henry Mall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Newspaper; Online news; Political knowledge; Presidential campaigns; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250688301     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: 1531328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X07302881     Document Type: Article

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