Online communication: Putting the knowledge gap theory into perspective

Communication Research and Media Science in Europe: Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 289-308

  Bonfadelli, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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