Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories.
The media effects discipline has bequeathed scholars with an endlessly pliable set of theories helping establish the field of communication. Recent decades, however, witnessed a growing chorus of criticism pointing to theories' anachronistic nature to suggest that ideas once known for their original...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 8 - 20 |
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