Opinion leaders - Do they know more than others about their area of interest?

Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-140

  Trepte, Sabine ^a   Scherer, Helmut ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

followers; information; Multi Step Flow; opinion leaders; political knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953850645     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMM.2010.007     Document Type: Article

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