Tabloidization and the teen market: Are teenage magazines dumberer than ever?

Journalism Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-136

  Nice, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dumbing down; Popular journalism; Public education; Tabloidization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010205505     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700601056882     Document Type: Article

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