Children's future programming and media use between entertainment and education

The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling to Children: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 275-301

  Vorderer, Peter ^a   Ritterfeld, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607829     Document Type: Chapter

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