Internet use in the contemporary media environment.

By Andrew J. Flanagin, Miriam J. Metzger. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital (2004, positive): “Evidence is accumulating showing that the Internet adds on to existing patterns of communication, “used in a manner similar to other, more traditional technologies” (Flanagan & Metzger, 2001, p. 153).”
Viral marketing: Motivations to forward online content (2010, background): “Although the extant literature reports that the Internet is used both as a means of staying in touch with others and developing new relationships (e.g., Flanagin and Metzger, 2001), our measure of the motivation of the need to belong did not significantly influence the forwarding of online content.”
Binge-watching motivates change: Uses and gratifications of streaming video viewers challenge traditional TV research (2020, background): “Additionally, the conveniences of binge-watching technology indicate that people have motives across different communication channels (Ferguson and Perse, 2000; Flanagin and Metzger, 2001).”
Cyberstalking and the technologies of interpersonal terrorism (2002, background): “‘People seem to be integrating computer communication into their daily repertoire of communication tools and using computer-based technologies to fulﬁll a variety of needs just as they use more traditional media’ (Flanagin and Metzger, 2001: 171).”
Social Interactions Across Media (2004, result): “There were nearly as many internet interactions as there were telephone interactions, supporting previous studies (Dimmick et al., 2000; Flanagin and Metzger, 2001; Stafford et al., 1999) which found that the internet has come to rival the telephone as a medium for conducting personal relationships.”
Hey Alexa ... examine the variables influencing the use of artificial intelligent in-home voice assistants (2019, background): “Accordingly, it has been applied in traditional media such as radio, television and newspapers (Bantz, 1982; Leung and Wei, 1998), and interactive media including the Internet and websites (Flanagin and Metzger, 2001), social networks (OseiFrimpong and McLean, 2018), online games (Wu et al, 2010), v”
INTERNET USES AND GRATIFICATIONS: A Structural Equation Model of Interactive Advertising (2005, background): “Motivations for using a certain type of media differ from person to person (Flanagin and Metzger 2001).”
College student Web use, perceptions of information credibility, and verification behavior (2003, background): “1: college students' use of the Web Research shows that people rely a great deal on the Internet for retrieving information, and that college students are a particularly avid user group of this technology (e.g., Flanagin & Metzger, 2001; Pew Research Center, 1999, 2002).”
Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities (2007, background): “A second variable that can potentially influence knowledge contribution is information need fulfillment (Dholakia et al. 2004, Flanagin and Metzger 2001).”
User-generated content on the internet: an examination of gratifications, civic engagement and psychological empowerment (2009, background): “, 2000), the internet (Flanagin and Metzger, 2001; Papacharissi and Rubin, 2000; Parker and Plank, 2000), Short Message Service (SMS, ‘texting’; Leung, 2007) and ICQ (‘I Seek You’; Leung, 2001).”