Hartmann Tilo - Media Choice: A Theoretical and Empirical Overview

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Media choice : a theoretical and empirical overview/[edited] by Tilo Hartmann.
p. cm.
1. Mass mediaSocial aspects. 2. Mass mediaPsychological aspects. 3. Choice (Psychology) I. Hartmann, Tilo.
HM1206.M3894 2008
306.4'6--dc22
2008027006

ISBN13: 978-1-135-92506-2 ePub ISBN

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ISBN10: 0-203-93865-8 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96456-2 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96458-6 (pbk)

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Helena Bilandzic, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Research interests include media use, cultivation, narrative persuasion, qualitative and quantitative methodology.

Tabea Bcking, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Interests include framing research, search engines and new media, media choice, and methodological issues.

Alan R. Dennis, Professor of Information Systems. Holds the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His research interests include team collaboration, knowledge management, and the Internet.

Wolfgang Donsbach, Professor of Communication and founding director of the Department of Communication at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He has taught at the universities of Dortmund, Mainz and Berlin in Germany, and was a visiting professor at Syracuse University (USA), University of Navarra (Spain), and Harvard University. He has been president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (19951996) and the International Communication Association (20042005). Donsbach has been managing editor of the