The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing: An event history analysis

Westerik, Henk; Renckstorf, Karsten; Wester, Fred; Lammers, Jan

doi:10.1515/comm.2005.30.2.155

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“…Subsequent research further shows that adult household members do not only influence each other's choice for specific program types, but also that their decisions to watch or to abstain from watching are correlated (Huysmans, Lammers, Renckstorf, and Wester, 2000) and that viewing (or non-viewing) by one partner triggers the other partner to do likewise (Westerik, Renckstorf, Wester, and Lammers, 2005).…”

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“…In the present study, which is part of a broader research project on the social embeddedness of media use (Westerik et al, 2005(Westerik et al, , 2006, we will focus on television use, because of its self-evident social significance. We will further focus on adolescence because of the possibly lasting effects of the habits acquired during this period (cf.…”

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“…Unfortunately, quantitative researchers have paid less attention to this topic. Of course, there are notable exceptions (Copeland and Schweitzer, 1993;Huysmans, 2001;Kraaykamp et al, 2007;McDonald, 1985McDonald, , 1986Mutsaers, 1996;Westerik et al, 2005), but we know of no large scale survey research that focuses on both partners' exposure to television. Survey research has mainly focused on the factors that influence exposure to television of individuals (e. g., Bonfadelli, 1993;Frissen, 1996;Kraaykamp, 2001), but has hardly focused on how these factors influence the exposure of their partners.…”

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“…Gantz, 2001;Gunter and Svennevig, 1987;Renckstorf and Wester, 2004). Subsequently, partners mutually shape each other's decisions to watch television or not, and thus mutually influence the amount of time they spend watching television (Kraaykamp, Van Eijck, Ultee, and Van Rees, 2007;Westerik, Renckstorf, Wester, and Lammers, 2005).Qualitative research has consistently indicated that people from the same household affect each other's viewing behavior (Gantz, 2001;Krendl, Troiano, Dawson, and Clark, 1993;Lull, 1988Lull, , 1990Morley, 1986). Unfortunately, quantitative researchers have paid less attention to this topic.…”

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Partners' influence on each other's television exposure: Dominance or symmetry?

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2008

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In this study we analyzed to what extent partners who share the same household affect each other's exposure to television. With the use of linear structural equation modeling we analyzed data from a large scale representative survey in The Netherlands (n 697 couples).Results indicate that both men and women influence their partner's exposure to television.When people spend much time watching television, their partners are also likely to spend a lot of time in front of the television. These influences on each other's exposure were of equal magnitude for both men and women. Finally, we found a strong socialization effect of parental viewing in the family of origin.Keywords: media use, exposure to television, partners' influence, socialization effect, parental garden may be all you want to do after a hard day's work, but your neighbor may force you to come out of your chair and talk to him by just popping his head over the hedge and starting a conversation. Or worse, he could even have you help him push his broken car up his driveway. We know from Berger and Luckmann's (1966/1991) insight in the construction of social reality that your neighbor does not even have to pop his head over the hedge, or even be at home, to make you do things you would rather not do, such as mowing your lawn, because you vicariously observe and judge yourself for your neighbor. With television, this is no different. For instance, many people feel guilty after watching television at night, instead of doing something 'useful' (cf. Hagen, 1997;Höijer, 1999). We know that others, whether actu-ally present or not, judge our actions and do not always condone our wasting time on television.People's media use is constrained especially by members of their own households. For instance, based on their own research and research of many others, Webster and Wakshlag (1982;1983) and Mutsaers (1996) argue that people's program choices depend on the program preferences of the group of people with whom they watch. World wide, family members influence and constrain each other's television use (Lull, 1988).Among the specific others in people's households, partners play a special role.Partners tend to spend their leisure time together (Kalmijn and Bernasco, 2001), and they tend to watch television together as well (McDonald, 1985(McDonald, , 1986. If men and women engage in such shared leisure time activities, this creates mutual dependencies; the more they share activities together in their leisure time, the more their well-being depends on each other Partners and TV exposure 4 (Kalmijn and Bernasco, 2001). Simultaneously, they learn how their partners give meaning to these joint activities. All of this makes it likely that partners influence each other's definition of the situation concerning television viewing (cf. Gantz, 2001;Gunter and Svennevig, 1987;Renckstorf and Wester, 2004). Subsequently, partners mutually shape each other's decisions to watch television or not, and thus mutually influence the amount of time they spend watching television ...

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Media Use by Social Variable

Scherer¹

2008

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

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It is a phenomenon that can be observed in all industrialized societies that media use is connected with demographic factors. As a rule, people from different social backgrounds also use the media differently. On the other hand, people from similar social backgrounds also show similarities in their use of the media. Thus, there is a significant difference between the way women and men, older and younger people, and people with higher or lower levels of education use the media. Similarly, people from different ethnic groups differ in their use of the media. Another factor that is closely linked to media use is opinion leadership.

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The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing: An event history analysis

Abstract: Building on an action theoretical perspective, it is assumed that most televi-

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The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing: An event history analysis

The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing: An event history analysis

Partners' influence on each other's television exposure: Dominance or symmetry?

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