How can TV news be improved?: Viewer perceptions of quality and responsibility

Lind, Rebecca Ann

doi:10.1080/08838159509364312

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“…Thus, U&G continues to be exceedingly useful in explaining audience activity when individuals are most active in consciously making use of media for intended purposes. For example, Lind's (1995) study concluded that television viewers did not want their news fare limited by the government, the industry, or even concerned viewers.…”

Section: Structural Models Of Uandgmentioning

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Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century

Ruggiero¹

2000

Mass Communication and Society

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Some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous social science theory. In this article, I argue just the oppositeWhat mass communication scholars today refer to as the uses and gratifications (U&G) approach is generally recognized to be a subtradition of media effects research (McQuail, 1994). Early in the history of communications research, an approach was developed to study the gratifications that attract and hold audiences to the kinds of media and the types of content that satisfy their social and psychological needs (Cantril, 1942). Much early effects research adopted the experimental or quasi-experimental approach, in which communication conditions were manipulated in search of general lessons about how better to communicate, or about the unintended consequences of messages (Klapper, 1960).

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Section: Structural Models Of Uandgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century

Ruggiero¹

2000

Mass Communication and Society

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“…With reference to these antecedents, we articulated four media-related measures, which fit the conceptual marketing framework and tie into previous research in mass communication, involving media credibility (e.g., D. Shaw, 1985;E. Shaw, 1973;Wanta & Hu, 1994) and other attitudinal predictors of media use (e.g., Ball-Rokeach, 1985;Lind, 1993Lind, , 1995McLeod et al, 1998).…”

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A Marketplace Theory of Media Use

Beaudoin¹,

Thorson²

2002

Mass Communication and Society

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This study articulates a theory of media use that, with the proliferation and diversification of the mass media, conceptualizes news coverage as a commodity or product. From marketing to mass communication, we extend a conceptual framework of product purchase, articulating 4 determinants of attitude toward newspaper (A N ), which, in turn, influences newspaper readership. Determinants of A N are news credibility, attitude toward diversity aspects of journalism, attitude toward financial aspects of journalism, and individual differences. The study, using a well-fitting structural equation model, demonstrates the role that each of these measures plays in predicting media use and, furthermore, validates the applicability of the marketplace theory of media use. The model was tested with data from a telephone survey of 803 adults in a large California urban center.

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“…Research shows viewers can report what could be done to improve television news and can suggest behaviors they may enact (Lind, 1993(Lind, , 1995. In Component 4, we have found that viewers differ in their reported actual behaviors toward television news and in their justifications for actions such as changing channels, using viewer guides, and filing complaints (Lind, 1993(Lind, , 1995. The present study focuses on Component 1-ethical sensitivity (ETHSEN)-but our model has implications for research on the other components.…”

Section: Research Model and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 98%