How the news shapes our Civic Agenda

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-16

  McCombs, Maxwell ^a   Reynolds, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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