Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1211-1227

  Yang, JungAe ^a   Grabe, Maria Elizabeth ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension of news; digital divide; information processing; knowledge gap; learning from news media; new media; news exposure; online journalism; online news; traditional media

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055168320     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811401708     Document Type: Article

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