Selective exposure in political web browsing: Empirical verification of 'cyberbalkanization' in japan and the USA

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 929-953

  Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Ikeda, Ken'ichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyber balkanization; Information environment; Internet use; Political tolerance; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249103807     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802158490     Document Type: Article

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