Power to the People? Emotional Components of Media Power, Mobile ICTs, and Their Potential to Alter Individual-Media Dependency Relations

Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

“…Oyekale and Oladele [58] advocate for more involvement of the media in providing relevant climate change information such that can assuage climate change impacts. Media has become very significant in disseminating mass information to the public and there has been recent upsurge in the use of media mechanisms by social institutions to connect people to information [59,60]. As such, the public is increasingly becoming dependent on media sources for the provision of information.…”

“…Thus, the theory focuses on existing associations between the media and audience, where the latter gets to rely on the former to satisfy their information needs. Other studies [60,62,67] also noted that at the macro level, media dependency theory further examines the relationship between social institutions, media and audience termed as a "tripartite relationship" where it theorizes how social institutions and media influences the audience cognitively, affectively and behaviorally.…”

Ketergantungan Individu Terhadap Media Dan Perilaku “Phubbing” Pada Interaksi Tatap Muka

“…Dalam konteks komunikasi dan media massa, Maxian (2014) melihat apakah teknologi informasi komunikasi mengubah relasi ketergantungan individu dengan media dimana kekuatan media dikonseptualisasikan sebagai perubahan respons emosional terhadap akses media untuk pencapaian tujuan informasional. David dan Roberts (2017) melihat bahwa ponsel yang pada awalnya dirancang sebagai alat komunikasi ternyata dapat menghambat hubungan interpersonal.…”

“…Konsep keterhubungan memperluas ruang lingkup teori ketergantungan media untuk menjelaskan hubungan individu dengan media mobile, di mana individu memiliki lebih banyak pilihan dan kemandirian dalam mengakses berbagai konten dan layanan di media seluler sehingga individu cenderung mengembangkan hubungan ketergantungan yang intens dan luas dengan ponsel. Sementara hanya sedikit penelitian yang menyelidiki hubungan keterhubungan individu dengan media seluler (Jung, 2009;Maxian, 2014) dalam Jung (2017).…”