Media literacy interventions: What makes them boom or boomerang?

Communication Education

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Byrne, Sahara ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Boomerang Effect; Children and Media; Instructional Variations; Interventions; Longitudinal Experiment; Media Literacy; Media Violence; Prosocial Effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649116645     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: 14795795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03634520802226444     Document Type: Article

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