" Dark areas of ignorance" revisited: Comparing international affairs knowledge in Switzerland and the United States

Communication Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-358

  Iyengar, Shanto ^a   Hahn, Kyu S ^b,d   Bonfadelli, Heinz ^c   Marr, Mirko ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Hard and soft news; International and domestic news; Media systems; Political knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449180400     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650209333024     Document Type: Article

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