Measuring Youth Media Exposure: A Multimodal Method for Investigating the Influence of Media on Digital Natives

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1736-1754

  Rich, Michael ^a   Bickham, David S ^a   Shrier, Lydia A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological momentary assessment; measurement; media use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945952839     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215596558     Document Type: Article

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