Exposure Research Going Mobile: A Smartphone-Based Measurement of Media Exposure to Political Information in a Convergent Media Environment

Communication Methods and Measures

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2016, Pages 135-148

  Ohme, Jakob ^a   Albaek, Erik ^a   H de Vreese, Claes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84964497089     PISSN: 19312458     EISSN: 19312466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2016.1150972     Document Type: Article

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