Communication and Education: Creating Competence for Socialization into Public Life

Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 363-391

  McLeod, Jack ^a   Shah, Dhavan ^a   Hess, Diana ^a   Lee, Nam Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic empowerment gap; Communication competence; Deliberative discussion; Democracy divide; Family communication patterns; Internet news use; Political discussion; Political socialization; Traditional news media

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155172787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470767603.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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