
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This volume represents the next generation of research in media psychology, bridging selective exposure into a larger framework of choice in media usage. Considering the myriad media options available to use, this work seeks to answer such questions as: What mechanisms guide an individual's exposure to/choice of media? How can researchers model them? The questions why and how people decide to use media offerings are key in current communication scholarship. Research on selective exposure has addressed this area in the past, but the term 'media choice' is used here to represent any implicit/automatic/spontaneous or explicit/deliberate 'decisions' of the users and subsequent behavioral consequences that lead to a contact with a media stimulus.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Media Choice
- Chapter 2 Social Cognitive Theories of Media Selection
- Chapter 3 Action Theory, Theory of Planned Behavior and Media Choice
- Chapter 4 Uses and Gratifications as Media Choice
- Chapter 5 Money Does Matter
- Chapter 6 The Effect of Subjective Quality Assessments on Media Selection
- Chapter 7 Fast and Frugal Media Choices
- Chapter 8 Cognitive Dissonance Theory—A Roller Coaster Career
- Chapter 9 Informational Utility as Determinant of Media Choices
- Chapter 10 Affect as a Predictor of Entertainment Choice
- Chapter 11 Media Choice as Avoidance Behavior
- Chapter 12 Media Choice on a Micro Level
- Chapter 13 The Role of Structure in Media Choice
- Chapter 14 Media Choice Despite Multitasking?
- Chapter 15 Media Synchronicity and Media Choice
- Chapter 16 Media Adoption and Diffusion
- Index