[This post comes from my candidacy exam, in which I was asked to respond to a classic article: Bauer, Raymond. 1964. "The obstinate audience: The influence process from the point of view of social communication." American Psychologist 19: 319-328] Which, if any, issues have been dealt with and/or resolved within the field of communication? Bauer’s … Continue reading Updating the Obstinate Audience
Tag: Uses and Gratifications
My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies
Along with my thoughts on the encoding-decoding-recoding model, what follows comes from my dissertation on gendered media engagings and describes how I consider the fundamental elements of media reception and audience studies. What are media products? Media products are the technologies, channels and contents that constitute our understanding of what is ‘the media’. They are … Continue reading My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies
An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies
This blog posts continues the dissection of my dissertation that I began by introducing the topic of gendered media engagings earlier this year. This post focuses on a model I used in my dissertation to understand the array of media studies conducted to investigate the ways in which gender is involved in how people engage … Continue reading An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies
Understanding Uses and Gratifications
[The following comes from my Ph.D. candidacy exam in 2007; in this part of the exam, I was asked to consider the uses and gratifications approach to media studies: what it is, how it came to be, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of it.] We are concerned here with explaining the uses-and-gratifications … Continue reading Understanding Uses and Gratifications
Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender
(The literature review for this paper can be found in this previous post.) Study overview As indicated above, our purpose for this study was to enter the literature on gender differences in game playing with two variations on the extant literature. One of these was to include male and female assessments of game playing gratifications … Continue reading Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender
Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation
A long time ago, when I first started graduate school, one of my primary research interests was the role the media plays in forming people's identities. At the time, I researched everything I could on the psychological and sociological underpinnings of identity formation, to try to understand how the media could be involved in this … Continue reading Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation
On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been
I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I've been convinced that how the new media has affected our … Continue reading On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been
