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April 01 2010
News & the news media in the digital age: implications for democracy
Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1982, is the Robert S. Lynd Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Deciding What's News (1979; reissued, 2004), Democracy and the News (2003), and most recently, Imagining America in 2033 (2008).
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Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1982, is the Robert S. Lynd Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Deciding What's News (1979; reissued, 2004), Democracy and the News (2003), and most recently, Imagining America in 2033 (2008).
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Daedalus (2010) 139 (2): 8–17.
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Herbert J. Gans; News & the news media in the digital age: implications for democracy. Daedalus 2010; 139 (2): 8–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/daed.2010.139.2.8
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