Sung Hyun Kim
Testing the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis in South Korea: Traditional News Media, the Internet, and Political Learning
analyzing data survey south korean respondents study explores role news media informing audience politics particular examined whether different forms news media function increase gap political knowledge socioeconomic classes consistent findings united states newspaper reading positively related political learning use political web sites also indicated small learning effect data supported knowledge gap hypothesis considerable gap political knowledge highly educated lesseducated respondents importantly gap even greater among heavy newspaper readers among political web users findings indicate newspapers internet may function increase gap social classes