The Mass Media and Modern Society
- ISBN-10
- 0030836670
- ISBN-13
- 9780030836671
- Category
- Social Science / Media Studies
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- Rinehart Press
- Authors
- William L. Rivers, Theodore Peterson, Jay Walbourne Jensen
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