The Knowledge Gap and Foreign Affairs: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
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t Since its initial formulation', the knowledge gap hypothesis has stimulated numerous studies of the conditions under which differential knowledge will be generated by increased media coverage.2 For the originators of this concept, knowledge gaps and their maintenance are part of a process of social control. Information is associated with power and characteristics of the social system which operate to restrict the access of low status groups to this source of power. Education is seen as the primary limiting factor in that educa-