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Publication details [#40629]

Eveland, William P., Jr., Krisztina Marton and Mihye Seo. 2004. Moving beyond "Just the Facts": The Influence of Online News on the Content and Structure of Public Affairs Knowledge. Communication Research 31 (1) : 82–108.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | learning | news reporting

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This experimental study shows that the use of online news may actually discourage learning of news story facts. On the other hand, those who commonly use the Web appear to have more densely interconnected knowledge structures for public affairs topics. These results point to limitations in most past online news learning research.