Associational Membership as a Source of Social Capital: Its Links to Use of Local Newspaper, Interpersonal Communication, Entertainment Media, and Volunteering

Fleming, Kenneth; Thorson, Esther; Peng, Zengjun

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“…held the mass media responsible for declines in social capital, the influence of the mass media is more complex. Subsequent research has closely scrutinized the role of the mass media, demonstrating that news use is positively associated with social capital, but entertainment TV viewing is negatively associated with social capital~Beaudoin & Brehm & Rahn, 1997;Fleming et al, 2005;Norris, 1996Norris, , 2000Shah, McLeod, et al, 2001!. In addition, exposure to socially oriented health campaign media messages is associated with social capital health social capital~Thorson &!.…”

Section: Mass Media Use and Social Capitalmentioning

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The impact of news use and social capital on youth wellbeing: An aggregate‐level analysis

Beaudoin

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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The current study explores the socioenvironmental determinants of youth development, with a focus on the mass media and social capital; it tests a model in which news use and social capital influence youth wellbeing. Social capital is operationally defined in terms of youth involvement and perceptions of place, and youth wellbeing is measured with youth arrest and youth pregnancy. Individual‐level data come from three telephone surveys of adults in 38 counties in the state of Iowa, with macro‐level data coming from the same counties. Over time, youth involvement increased significantly, while youth pregnancy decreased significantly. Perceptions of place and youth arrest remained constant. After transforming the individual‐level measures to the aggregate, structural equation modeling offered support for a three‐step model in which news use influences social capital, which, in turn, influences youth wellbeing. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 35: 947–965, 2007.

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Section: Mass Media Use and Social Capitalmentioning

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The impact of news use and social capital on youth wellbeing: An aggregate‐level analysis

Beaudoin

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Local media use has been shown to be related to local social ties (e.g., Beaudoin & Thorson, 2004;Finnegan & Viswanath, 1988;Viswanath, Finnegan, Rooney, & Potter, 1990), organizational participation (e.g., Beaudoin & Thorson, 2004;Fleming, Thorson, & Peng, 2005), civic and political engagement (e.g., McLeod, Scheufele, & Moy, 1999;Stamm, Emig, & Hesse, 1997), and social cohesion (Yamamoto, 2011). At the community level, the presence of community institutions such as a community newspaper has been found to be related to a community's capacity to organize collective action (Swaroop & Moreoff, 2006).…”

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Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model

Yamamoto

2011

Mass Communication and Society

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A community structure model is grounded in the structural model of mass media originally formulated by the Minnesota team of Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien. Although recent theoretical and empirical work has led to major refinements of the community structure research, there remain substantive and promising issues that deserve to be examined by mass communication scholars. This article recasts the original structural model by integrating a community-oriented approach to social control and formulates a set of hypotheses with regard to the role of local mass media in community social control.A community structure approach to the study of mass media is rooted in the structural model of mass media originally formulated by the Minnesota team of Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien . To understand the role of mass media in society, this approach examines social mechanisms that influence the distribution of information and its social control implications, particularly regarding the stability of a social system that revolves around the

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“…To respond to Putnam's (1993Putnam's ( , 1995aPutnam's ( , 1995b thesis that television viewing destroyed social capital in the United States, researchers have examined the relationship between social capital and mass communication in more detail in the past 15 years (e.g., Fleming et al, 2005;Milner, 2002;Norris, 1996;Shah, 1998;Shah, McLeod, & Yoon, 2001). The role of a free press in a democracy is critical because public information affects the quality of government as well as the quality of citizens' lives (e.g., Bennett, 2003;Gans, 2003;Newton, 1997Newton, , 2001Putnam, 2000).…”

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“…Previous research has shown that news media contributed to associational membership and volunteering (Fleming, Thorson, & Peng, 2005), political and community activism (Norris, 1996), and interpersonal trust and civic participation (Shah, McLeod, & Yoon, 2001). In studying the media effects, communication scholars have relied on either television program genres (e.g., Norris, 1996) or the content of media messages (e.g., Fleming et al, 2005).…”

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“…In studying the media effects, communication scholars have relied on either television program genres (e.g., Norris, 1996) or the content of media messages (e.g., Fleming et al, 2005). However, it is not clear whether the learning from news media is a result of exposure and attention to the various media outlets or a function of cognitive factors such as information-processing behaviors.…”

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Assessing the Role of Information-Processing Strategies in Learning From Local News Media About Sources of Social Capital

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Thorson²

2008

Mass Communication and Society

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This study examines the mediating effects of information-processing strategies on the relationship between use of local news media, informational use of the Internet, and sources of social capital: interpersonal trust, reciprocity, and associational membership. Analyses of a telephone survey data (n ¼ 546) of American adults show that even though local news media were influential, information-processing strategies were more powerful than attention in explaining learning from local news media about social norms at the individual level. These findings support the usefulness of the cognitive mediation model of information-processing behaviors in examining learning from local news media about social norms. Of the two strategies, elaborative processing played a more important role than active reflection in the mediating process. Informational use of the Internet had a significant and independent effect on associational membership, after demographic, structural anchoring, local media use, and information-processing measures were statistically controlled.

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Associational Membership as a Source of Social Capital: Its Links to Use of Local Newspaper, Interpersonal Communication, Entertainment Media, and Volunteering

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

The impact of news use and social capital on youth wellbeing: An aggregate‐level analysis

The impact of news use and social capital on youth wellbeing: An aggregate‐level analysis

Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model

Assessing the Role of Information-Processing Strategies in Learning From Local News Media About Sources of Social Capital

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