Media usage patterns and portrayals of seniors

Handbook of Communication and Aging Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 423-446

  Robinson, James D ^a   Skill, Tom ^a   Turner, Jeanine W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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