Entertainment and enjoyment as media effects

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 532-550

  Vorderer, Peter ^a   Hartmann, Tilo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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