Life Stage and Motives for Television Use

Ostman, Ronald E.; Jeffers, Dennis W.

doi:10.2190/e2w1-ju93-h6tx-8u0w

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“…Furthermore, research suggests that the effects of ego depletion on self‐regulation may be a developmentally linked effect that decreases with age (Dahm et al, ). There are no such findings examining entertaining media use and well‐being by age in a similar fashion; however, adults do appear to use entertainment less for negative motives (to pass time, to forget) and more for positive motives (to learn, to share, to connect with others) as they age (Ostman & Jeffers, ). It may well be that recovery processes for older adults are thus less affected by the negative appraisal processes resulting from ego depletion due to (a) fewer problems with self‐regulation due to ego depletion and (b) more positive motives overall for media use.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Guilty Couch Potato: The Role of Ego Depletion in Reducing Recovery Through Media Use

Reinecke

Hartmann²,

Eden³

2014

J Commun

122

105

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This article addresses ego depletion as a mechanism influencing media‐based stress recovery processes. Using structural equation modeling, relationships between ego depletion, procrastination, guilt, enjoyment, vitality, and recovery experience were tested using data from an online survey (N = 471). Results suggest that ego depletion may increase the risk of negatively appraising the use of interactive (video games) and noninteractive (television) entertaining media as a form of procrastination. The resulting guilt is negatively related to the recovery experience associated with using entertainment. Therefore, ego‐depleted individuals may benefit less from the psychological recovery potential of entertainment media, despite their greater need for recovery. These findings are an important step in understanding the pivotal role of appraisal processes for media‐induced recovery and the entertainment experience.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Guilty Couch Potato: The Role of Ego Depletion in Reducing Recovery Through Media Use

Reinecke

Hartmann²,

Eden³

2014

J Commun

122

105

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“…Previous U&G research has highlighted the significance of media use in identity expression (Leung & Wei, 1998, 2000Ostman & Jeffers, 1983). Communication technologies are one of the crucial tools recrafting our bodies and identities, and the pleasures usually lie in the process of making meanings and forming identities (Fiske, 1987;Haraway, 1991).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freed or Trapped: Gaming Pleasures and Expression of Gender Identities in World of Warcraft among Chinese Players

Jiang¹

2018

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Information communication technologies hold an ambivalent place for gender identities in cyber space. In this sense, the ways that online game players make meaning of, respond to, and take pleasure in gaming lead to insights into how online games might serve as spaces for the enactment of new forms of gender identities. This study focuses on a bourgeoning communication phenomenon concerning MMORPG. Through a case study of World of Warcraft (WoW) guided by Uses and Gratifications theory, the paper explores gaming (dis)pleasures and expression of gender identities. Based on the data collected from virtual ethnography, which mainly included participant observation and in-depth interviews of 22 WoW players, the study takes a snapshot of the ways in which gender identities are constructed in WoW. The findings show that diverse options seem not to lead to a corresponding mobility or fluidity in terms of how gender can be performed in the game, even with "ladyboy" as an interesting phenomenon in gameplay. The paper argues that players' preferences and orientations toward gendered characters reflect their interplay with gaming rules, dominant narratives and relationships in real life, as well as the enactment in role-playing and image-based interfaces. Although some female players have to derive pleasures from a male perspective, there are some alternative consumptions of the masculine genre like WoW.

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“…Van der Goot and Beentjes (2008) also discuss studies examining the relation between motives for television viewing and age: 'This has been studied in some cross-sectional studies (e.g. Ostman and Jeffers 1983;Gunter 1998;Mundorf and Brownell 1990). Ostman and Jeffers formulated hypotheses on how motives for viewing would vary with the age of viewers.…”

Section: Audience Behaviour and Choices Across Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%