Overrepresented topics, underrepresented topics, and the cultivation effect

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 200-210

  Hetsroni, Amir ^a  

^a Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Content Analysis; Cultivation; Heuristic Processing; Learning and Construction; Reality Estimation; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017088217     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090802237642     Document Type: Article

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