THE MASS MEDIA AS SOURCES OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, AND HEALTH KNOWLEDGE

WADE, SERENA; SCHRAMM, WILBUR

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The focus of this paper is the relation of different patterns of information-seeking to different levels of public knowledge in three areas—public affairs, science, and health. The data come from secondary analysis of national sample surveys, and were obtained as by-products of a broad study of public knowledge in the United States.

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