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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]
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 .
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 ...
Sven Windahl (born May 1, 1942) is a Swedish professor of communication studies as well as a consultant in the field of organizational communication.His most influential work [1] is the book Using Communication Theory from 1989, co-authored with Dr. Benno Signitzer and Jean T. Olson.
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
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.
There are a few foods you may want to skip on Thanksgiving if you're taking a GLP-1 medication such as Ozempic, dietician Kylie Bensley, founder of the women’s nutrition company, Sulinu, tells ...
Many media effects theories hypothesize conditional media effects, including uses-and-gratifications theory (Rubin 2009), [53] reinforcing spiral model (Slater 2007), [71] the conditional model of political communication effects (McLeod et al. 2009), [72] the elaboration likelihood model (Petty & Cacioppo 1986).