Television use and social capital: testing Putnam's time displacement hypothesis

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Robert Putnam asserts that the decline in social capital in the US is caused by the increasing time spent on television. This hypothesis was refuted by researchers by investigating the level of reduction caused by television viewing to social capital. Analyses of data show that civic engagement was not affected by time spent on television through perceptions of time pressure. It was also indicated that time spent reading newspapers decreases perception of time pressure.

Social aspects, Time perception, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Television viewers, Social perception, Social participation, Putnam, Robert

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Political communication and statistical interaction: reexamining issue, image, involvement, and interpersonal conversation

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This article discusses problems posed by statistical interaction in communication research. To illustrate this, the authors reexamine research conducted on the relevance of political conversation on situational involvement, image attention and issue attention, suggesting a different methodology for determining regression slopes.

Analysis, Interpersonal communication, Communication, Communications, Statistical decision, Statistical decision theory, Communication in politics, Political communication

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Agenda-setting, priming, and framing revisted: another look at cognitive effects of political communication

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Framing, agenda-setting, and priming need to be kept as separate research topics, especially in the effects of political communication. These concepts need to be clearly explicated in the field of social psychology.

Politics, Media coverage, Priming (Psychology), Agenda-setting (Political science), Frames (Information theory), Agenda setting (Politics)

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