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  2. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    In general, people use mobile phones for the following uses and gratifications: sociability, entertainment, status, immediate access, instrumentality, mobility, and psychological reassurance. [28] Researchers have also identified that the uses and gratifications for contributing mobile content differ from those for retrieving mobile content. [29]

  3. Theories of media exposure - Wikipedia

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    The same fundamental principle applies however, the person will make the decision based on what brings the most gratification. [2] Communication behavior is goal-directed, purpose-driven, and motivated in U & G. People use communication to satisfy their needs or desires while the media competes with other forms of communication.

  4. Herta Herzog - Wikipedia

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    Herta Herzog-Massing (August 14, 1910 – February 25, 2010) was an Austrian-American social scientist specializing in communication studies.Her most prominent contribution to the field, an article entitled "What Do We Really Know About Daytime Serial Listeners?", is considered a pioneering work of the uses-and-gratifications approach and the cognitive revolution in media research.

  5. Social information processing (theory) - Wikipedia

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    The term Social Information Processing Theory was originally titled by Salancik and Pfeffer in 1978. [4] They stated that individual perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped by information cues, such as values, work requirements, and expectations from the social environment, beyond the influence of individual dispositions and traits. [5]

  6. Uses and gratifications - Wikipedia

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  7. Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology - Wikipedia

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    The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) is a technology acceptance model formulated by Venkatesh and others in "User acceptance of information technology: Toward a unified view" in the organisational context. [1] [2] The UTAUT aims to explain user intentions to use an information system and subsequent

  8. Elihu Katz - Wikipedia

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    Elihu Katz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ; 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses and gratifications theory. He authored over 20 books and 175 articles and book chapters during his lifetime and is acknowledged as one of "the founding fathers of regular television ...

  9. Pleasure principle (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Maturity is learning to endure the pain of deferred gratification. Freud argued that "an ego thus educated has become 'reasonable'; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also, at bottom, seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality ...