Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ornamental uses: Today, palms are valuable as ornamental plants and are often grown along streets in tropical and subtropical cities. Chamaedorea elegans is a popular houseplant and is grown indoors for its low maintenance. Farther north, palms are a common feature in botanical gardens or as indoor plants. Few palms tolerate severe cold and the ...
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uses_and_gratifications&oldid=304732696"
Beginning in the 1940s, researchers began to see patterns under the perspective of the uses and gratifications theory in radio listeners. [14] [15] Early research was concerned with topics such as children's use of comics and the absence of newspapers during a newspaper strike. An interest in more psychological interpretations emerged during ...
Uses and gratifications theory is a discipline which considers why anyone would volunteer time to create a user review. [24] Some researchers suggest that internal behaviours that value social benefits, self-enhancement, concern for others and the need for gratification are more likely to provide user reviews. [ 23 ]
The "uses and gratifications" model, associated with Jay Blumler and Elihu Katz, reflected this growing interest in the 'active audience'. One such example of this type of research was conducted by Hodge and Tripp, [17] and separately Palmer, [18] about how school-children make sense of the Australian soap opera Prisoner. They found that pupils ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban this week on red dye No. 3, or erythrosine, from foods and oral medications due to a potential cancer risk.. Food manufacturers have ...
Consumer socialization and consumerism are concerned with the stages by which young people develop consumer related skills, knowledge, and attitudes. In a retrospective study, written by University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management Chair of Marketing, Deborah Roedder John looks at 25 years of research and focuses her discussion on, "children's knowledge of products, brands ...
Application is defined as the concrete ways in which adolescents use media in their everyday lives (Steele & Brown, 1995). The Media Practice Model looks at two different types of application: appropriation and incorporation. Appropriation is an active, intentional, easily visible and goal oriented use of the media by adolescents. Steele and ...