Five challenges for the future of media-effects research

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 197-215

  Valkenburg, Patti M ^a   Peter, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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