Narrowcasting in the New World Information Order: A Space for the Audience?

Television & New Media

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-81

  Smith Shomade, Beretta E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

access; Black Entertainment Television (BET); cable diversity; democracy in media; narrowcasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997858892     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: 15528316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476403259746     Document Type: Article

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