Public Broadcasting and Democratic Culture: Consumers, Citizens, and Communards

A Companion to Television

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 174-198

  Murdock, Graham ^a,b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Broadcasting; Communities; Democratic culture; Modern societies; Rediffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889412522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470997130.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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