What We Know About the Effects of Mass Communication: The Brink of Hope
Public Opinion QuarterlyPublished 1 January 1957
Joseph T. Klapper
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Journal Article What We Know About the Effects of Mass Communication: The Brink of Hope Get access JOSEPH T. KLAPPER JOSEPH T. KLAPPER Joseph T. Klapper is Mass Communication Consultant with General Electric. At the time this article was written, he was Research Associate at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 4, WINTER 1957, Pages 453–474, https://doi.org/10.1086/266744 Published: 01 January 1957
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