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Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide.

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsPublished 1 January 1986
Robert P. Snow, Doris Α. Graber
Citations726
SJR quartileQ4
SJR score0.12
SNIP0.23

Abstract

This work assesses the political consequences of news presented to the public and how the public processes the news. Based on monitoring of 16 adults and the news content that reached them, it focuses on the thinking processes that come into play when people cope with political information.

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Social Sciences