The gender news use divide: Americans' sex-typed selective exposure to online news topics

Journal of Communication

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 739-758

  Knobloch westerwick, Silvia ^a   Alter, Scott ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENDER ISSUE; INTERNET; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349020726     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2007.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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