Growing up with television: Cultivation Processes

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 34-49

  Morgan, Michael ^a   Shanahan, James ^b   Signorielli, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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