The World Wide Web as a Functional Alternative to Television

By Douglas A. Ferguson, E. Perse. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Motives for Facebook use and expressing "true self" on the Internet (2012, background): “Early studies have centered on uses and gratifications of the Internet in general (Charney & Greenberg, 2001; Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Kaye, 1998; Kaye & Johnson, 2004; Sheldon, 2008).”
Social media adoption: The role of media needs and innovation characteristics (2015, background): “…relaxation, escape Papacharissi and Rubin (2000) Internet Entertainment, pastime, interpersonal utility, information seeking, convenience Ferguson and Perse (2000) TV related web surfing Entertainment, pastime, relaxation, social information Leung (2001) Instant messaging Entertainment,…”
A Social-Cognitive Approach to Uses and Gratifications (2008, background): “…treated habit as a type of gratification, for example, “Because it is part of my usual routine” (Korgaonkar & Wolin, 1999); “Because it is a habit, just something I do” (Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Kaye, 1998); and “Always do something because it is a ‘habit’” (Perse & Greenberg-Dunn, 1998).”
A Social Cognitive Theory of Internet Uses and Gratifications: Toward a New Model of Media Attendance (2004, background): “…Wenner, & Rosengren, 1985), the Internet studies that hewed most closely to the uses and gratifications tradition have explained less than 10% of the variance in Internet usage from gratifications (e.g., Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Kaye, 1998; Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000; Parker & Plank, 2000).”
INTERNET USES AND GRATIFICATIONS: A Structural Equation Model of Interactive Advertising (2005, background): “…television (Heeter and Greenberg 1985), VCR (Cohen, Levy, and Golden 1988; Levy 1987), pager (Leung and Wei 1999), e-mail (Dimmick, Kline, and Stafford 2000), and the World Wide Web (Eighmey 1997; Ferguson and Perse 2000; Korgaonkar and Wolin 1999; Lin 1999b; Luo 2002; Papacharissi and Rubin 2000).”
Predicting Audience Exposure to Television in Today's Media Environment: An Empirical Integration of Active-Audience and Structural Theories (2009, background): “…consuming media, and offers an understanding of how audience motivations, individual characteristics, and preferences link to media behavior (e.g., Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Kang, 2002; Katz et al., 1974; Ko et al., 2005; Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000; Roe & Minnebo, 2007; Rosengren, Wenner, &…”
Influences on TV Viewing and Online User-shared Video Use: Demographics, Generations, Contextual Age, Media Use, Motivations, and Audience Activity (2012, background): “Television U&G studies have a long and rich tradition (e.g., Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Rubin, 1981, 1983, 2009; Rubin & Perse, 1987).”
Going to the Blogs: Toward the Development of a Uses and Gratifications Measurement Scale for Blogs (2010, background): “Users tend to access Web sites to satisfy entertainment, escape, and social interaction needs and to pass the time (Charney & Greenberg, 2001; Eighmey, 1997; Ferguson & Perse, 2000; Kang & Atkin, 1999; Kaye, 1998; Korgaonkar & Wolin, 1999; Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000).”
Understanding the appeal of user-generated media: a uses and gratification perspective (2009, background): “Many scholars have identified control as a primary motivation for using the Internet (Flaherty et al., 1998; Papacharissi and Rubin, 2000), and individuals who have a strong internal locus of control may be especially susceptible to the allure of the Internet (Wallace, 1999).”