Communication, Context, and Community
By Dhavan V. Shah, J. McLeod, So-Hyang Yoon. Communication Research, 2001
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This research explores the influence of mass media use and community context on civic engagement. The article presents a multilevel test of print, broadcast, and Internet effects on interpersonal trust and civic participation that acknowledges there are (a) micro-level differences in the motives underlying media use, (b) age-cohort differences in patterns of media use and levels of civic engagement, and (c) macro-level differences in community / communication context. Accordingly, the effects of individual differences in media use and aggregate differences in community context are analyzed within generational subsamples using a pooled data set developed from the 1998 and 1999 DDB Life Style Studies. The data suggest that informational uses of mass media are positively related to the production of social capital, whereas social-recreational uses are negatively related to these civic indicators. Informational uses of mass media were also found to interact with community context to influence civic engagement. Analyses within subsamples find that among the youngest adult Americans, use of the Internet for information exchange more strongly influences trust in people and civic participation than do uses of traditional print and broadcast news media.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Internet Communication, Geographic Community, and Social Capital in Crisis (2007, background): “Shah, McLeod, and So-Hyang (2001) suggested that this was particularly true if the online activities in question centered on informationgathering: ‘‘[I]nformational uses of mass media are positively related to the production of social capital, whereas social-recreational uses are negatively related”
- Does Internet Use Affect Engagement? A Meta-Analysis of Research (2009, background): “Some studies estimate the explained variance at less than one percent (Bimber, 2003; Hardy & Scheufele, 2005; Kenski & Stroud, 2006; Nisbet & Scheufele, 2004; Scheufele & Nisbet, 2002) or less than two percent (Shah et al., 2001b) or about three percent (Kwak et al., 2006; Moy et al., 2005).”