As Time Goes By: What Changes and What Remains the Same in Entertainment Experience Over the Life Span?

Journal of Communication

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 588-608

  Bartsch, Anne ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; MASS MEDIA; TELEVISION; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 84865087613     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01657.x     Document Type: Article

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