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Opinion Leadership, Poverty, and Information Sharing.
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Chatman, Elfreda A. – RQ, 1987
This test of theory of opinion leadership in a low-income environment addressed three questions: (1) whether opinion leaders exist, their characteristics, and their role in information dissemination; (2) what the information world of this population is; and (3) whether this population views the library as a source of useful information. (EM)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Information Dissemination, Information Needs, Information Seeking