Contextual antecedents and political consequences of adolescent political discussion, discussion elaboration, and network diversity

Political Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-47

  Hively, Myiah Hutchens ^a,b   Eveland, William P ^b  

^a School of Communication Information and Library Science   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cutting; Family communication patterns; Heterogeneity; Knowledge structure density; Parental news mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449180286     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600802622837     Document Type: Article

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