| Title | The Two-Step Flow of Communication: An Up-To-Date Report on an Hypothesis |
| Author(s) | ELIHU KATZ, A former staff member of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, the author is now on leave from his post as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and is currently guest lecturer in sociology at the Hebrew University in erusalem |
| Identifiers | Public Opinion Quarterly, volume 21, page 61 |
| Copyright | © 1957, the American Association for Public Opinion Research |
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