Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century¶
Ruggiero, T. E. (2000). Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century.
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- Uses and Gratifications
- The framework's practical contribution within audience research was empirical: it opened decades of survey-instrument studies on television, radio, newspaper, and later internet, social-media, and mobile-phone use that measured the need dimensions and compared them across media types, demographic groups, and cultures, establishing that audiences segment by motivation and that different media satisfy different needs even when their surface content overlaps
This sourceA review of uses-and-gratifications research across newspapers, radio, television and its revival for internet media.
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- The framework's practical contribution within audience research was empirical: it opened decades of survey-instrument studies on television, radio, newspaper, and later internet, social-media, and mobile-phone use that measured the need dimensions and compared them across media types, demographic groups, and cultures, establishing that audiences segment by motivation and that different media satisfy different needs even when their surface content overlaps
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