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  • Political Use of the Internet, Political Attitudes and Political Participation

    • Authors: Song-In Wang (2007)

  • This study aims to clarify the interrelationships among political attitudes, Internet use, and political participation, and to develop a path model in which interrelationships among various concepts can be clarified and modified to provide a more integrated theoretical formulation. The study tested two path models. The first model assumed that demographics lead to political attitudes, then to the political use of the Internet, and eventually to political participation. The second model assumed that political use of the Internet precedes political attitudes, and then attitudes lead to political participation. The results show that the data correspond better to the second model than to the first; political use of the Internet promotes political interest and feelings of trust and effi...
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  • Politically Mobilizing vs. Demobilizing Media: A Mediation Model

    • Authors: Chingching Chang (2007)

  • This study examined the role of time spent on media in predicting political participation (active and election participation). On the basis of type and content of media, media uses were categorized as either politically mobilizing (TV news, newspapers, magazines, and Internet for work) or demobilizing (TV non-news, radio, and Internet for pleasure). It was hypothesized that the positive relationship between mobilizing media and political participation would be mediated by political interest. On the other hand, the negative relationship between demobilizing media and political participation would be mediated by political cynicism. Findings provided general support for the proposed mediation models.
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  • A Victory of the Internet over Mass Media? Examining the Effects of Online Media on Political Attitudes in South Korea

    • Authors: Daekyung Kim; Thomas J. Johnson (2006)

  • This study employed an online survey of 249 politically interested Internet users during the 2004 national Assembly election in South Korea to examine if reliance on online news media for political news and information influences political attitudes after controlling for demographics and use of the traditional media. Reliance on independent Web-based newspapers appeared to be a stronger predictor than traditional media and their online counterparts. Based on the findings, a media power shift in Korea was discussed.
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  • Development Communication in the Agricultural Context (1971, with a new foreword)

    • Authors: Nora Cruz Quebral (2006)

  • The thinking behind this article jelled in that period before the 1970s when the modernization theory of development still ruled but had lost some of its luster. ‘Communication’ then was a word used mostly by academics to connote media systems or the mass media, also known familiarly as ‘the press’. With its perceived capability to directly affect large, passive audiences, communication for development was expected to diffuse from elite sources information to raise expectations, unify diverse groups; and persuade people to shed traditional attitudes, learn new skills, and adopt technological innovations. But in developing Asia and Latin America, native experience was not in sync with conventional wisdom. This article may be viewed as part of the tentative groping at that time for m...
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  • Framing Analysis of a Conflict: How Newspapers in Five Asian Countries Covered the Iraq War

    • Authors: Crispin C. Maslog; Seow Ting Lee; Hun Shik Kim (2006)

  • This five-country study examined the extent to which the news coverage of the Iraq war by newspapers from India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines and by one news agency from Pakistan is framed according to the principles of war/peace journalism outlined by Johan Galtung. The findings, based on a content analysis of 442 stories from eight newspapers, suggest a slight peace journalism framing. Two important factors shaping the news framing of the conflict and support for the war and for the protagonists in the war (Americans/British vs. Iraqis) are religion and sourcing. Newspapers from the non-Muslim countries, except the Philippines, have a stronger war journalism framing, and are more supportive of the war and of the Americans/British than the newspapers from the Muslim co...
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  • Manifesto for Development Communication: Nora Quebral and the Los Banos School of Development Communication

    • Authors: Linje Manyozo (2006)

  • How did the discipline and practice of development communication begin? Who were the founders and how were the first experiments implemented? Rejecting the ideologically populist views that locates development communication origins within western development scholarship, the following postcolonist expose´ appraises various commu-nication uses in development that emerged from different parts of the world in the past 50 years. The discussion holds that the pioneering development communication experiments were located between postcolonial and underdevelopment theories, and as such, to understand its origins, a study must focus on the earliest non-commissioned and community-originated experiments, as this study purports to do.