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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. [27] Researchers have also identified that the uses and gratifications for contributing mobile content differ from those for retrieving mobile content. [28]
Theories such as the Uses and Gratifications Theory, Social Learning Theory, and Cultivation theory offer insights into how individuals learn from media, how media shapes people’s perceptions of reality, and how media satisfies individuals' needs. Research influences what content is produced, what content is consumed, and how media is used to ...
The concept of parasocial interaction became increasingly attractive to mass communication scholars as more active views of the audience emerged in the second half of the 20th century—especially uses and gratification theory—and numerous empirical studies have utilized the idea to explore PSI’s antecedents, correlates, and consequences. [4]
Zillmann's theory proposed the notion that viewer's are physiologically aroused when they watch aggressive scenes. [15] After watching an aggressive scene, an individual will become aggressive due to the arousal from the scene. In 1974 Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch used the uses and gratifications theory to explain media
In this context, the concept of motivation is defined based on previous theories such as selective exposure and uses and gratifications theory. This means that a teenager's motivation to attend to certain media might be based on affective , behavioral , cognitive and instrumental needs, or it could also simply be a result of habituation (Steele ...
The uses and gratification model emphasizes what the audience does with the media presented to them, here influence lies with the consumer. The "ethnographic turn" contributed to the maturing of the field as contexts of consumption are now recognized as having significant impact upon the processes of the interpretation of media.
David Gorski, a veteran debunker of pseudoscience, identifies "hubris, arrogance, and ego gratification" as traits of trained physicians who turn into quacks and anti-vaxxers.
Baran and Davis [16] identify four primary criticisms of dependency theory: Variability in microlevel and macrolevel measurement makes between-study comparability problematic. The theory is often difficult to empirically verify. The meaning and power of dependency is sometimes unclear. Dependency theory lacks power in explaining long-term effects.