Media Dependency During a Large-Scale Social Disruption: The Case of September 11

By Wilson Lowrey. 2004

173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ccbd369f449d01bb1924f73d3814e919c888bd1c

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In Communication

1. Brooke Fisher Liu
2. Julia Daisy Fraustino
3. Yan Jin
4. Shirley S. Ho
5. Carolyn Lagoe
6. Sonny Rosenthal
7. Carolyn A. Lin
8. Youqing Liao

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Brooke Fisher Liu
2. Carolyn Lagoe
3. Carolyn A. Lin
4. Yan Jin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Julia Daisy Fraustino
2. Brooke Fisher Liu
3. Yan Jin
4. Shirley S. Ho
5. Carolyn Lagoe
6. Sonny Rosenthal
7. Carolyn A. Lin
8. Youqing Liao

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of News Media and Interpersonal Interactions on H1N1 Risk Perception and Vaccination Intent (2013, background): “Although research assessing the influence of media dependence on behavior is uncommon, Lowrey (2004) found that post-9=11 media dependence significantly predicted audience behavior, including buying items for protection against future attacks, giving charitable contributions for victims, and…”
• The Scared, the Outraged, and the Anxious: How Crisis Emotions, Involvement, and Demographics Predict Publics’ Conative Coping (2016, background): “In terms of age, Lowrey (2004) found this demographic characteristic served as a key predictor of the general public’s overall media dependency in the case of September 11 terrorist attacks.”
• Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior and Media Dependency Theory: Predictors of Public Pro-environmental Behavioral Intentions in Singapore (2015, background): “Furthermore, the extent to which people rely on media, or media dependency, can motivate behavior change (Lowrey, 2004).”