How keeping up diversifies: Watching public affairs TV in the Netherlands 1988-2010

European Journal of Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 646-662

  Wonneberger, Anke ^a   Schoenbach, Klaus ^a   van Meurs, Lex ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Intomart GfK ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audience fragmentation; infotainment; news exposure; people meter data; public affairs TV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890447296     PISSN: 02673231     EISSN: 14603705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267323113501150     Document Type: Article

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