Research Article
Media Education and the End of the Critical Consumer
DAVID BUCKINGHAM
Harvard Educational Review September 2003, 73 (3) 309-327; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.73.3.c149w3g81t381p67
DAVID BUCKINGHAM
1
University of London, Institute of Education

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