Communication research paper Annotated Bibliography
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COM 375
Annotated Bibliography
Morgan, M., Shanahan, J., & Signorielli, N. (2015). Yesterday's New Cultivation, Tomorrow. Mass Communication & Society, 674-699. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15205436.2015.1072725
Michael Morgan uses cultivation theory to examine the long-term effects of media (television) on audiences. “Thus, the notion that how much people watched was far more important than what they watched was fundamental to cultivation theory.”
“Cultivation theory suggests that heavy television exposure generates a world of ideas and mental content that is homogeneous and biased toward “reality” as is depicted in media content. Heavier television users are more like to be anomic, to believe in the “meanness” of the world, to accept specific gender stereotypes, and to fear possible crime victimization” (Matei)
This author of this book presents two theoretical “tools” to examine millennial political engagement; the pessimistic disaffected citizen perspective, and the cultural displacement perspective. It might be worthwhile to explore these two perspectives in my research, especially in the case study section. Comment by James Owens: Here you offer two concepts and then you follow with their definitions. Perfect.
Disaffected citizen refers to losing political interest, while cultural displacement considers that millennials have being politically socialized within the media environment. In the case of the 2016 presidential election, both perspectives seem to have a significant role.
Gil de Zúñiga, H., Jung, N., & Valenzuela, S. (2012). Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation. Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, 17(3), 319-336. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01574.x/full
“The purpose of this article is to test whether SNS can promote democratically desirable attitudes and behaviors when individuals use these sites to keep up with news about public affairs or about their community.” [Comment from James Owens: What is SNS? How do they define ‘democratically desirable attitudes’? What kind of paradigm are they using in this study? Does this paradigm fit with or complement that which you will use? (Will you also do a quantitative study?)]
Social Capital and Participation, and Social Network Sites for News and Citizenship are areas targeted in this research. And how these areas affect user communication behavior.
What is social capital? “the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.” (Google) [Comment from James Owens: How did the article define social capital?]
Warren, A. M., Sulaiman, A., & Jaafar, N. I. (YEAR). Facebook: The enabler of online civic engagement for activists. [Journal title, volume#(issue#), pagerange.] Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004664
“This exploratory study aims to investigate the existing efforts in civic engagement using Facebook. Previous work describes the typical usage of Facebook for connecting with others, to educate and inform in a wide range of context. Little research exists, however, on the emerging role of Facebook as an enabler for civic engagement in a social network environment.”
Modes of internet activism: collection of information, publication of information, using the internet to discuss issues, scheduling (form coalitions and coordinate activities), lobbying and advocating.
Pasek, J. (n.d.). Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331680902996403?scroll=top&needAccess=t rue
This is another study that examines how social capital influences millennial online social networking.
“Internet communication has the unique ability to transmit information and build relationships among large groups of physically disconnected individuals. Indeed, these potential “virtual communities” have been hailed as novel new ways to jump-start civic engagement and diminish the cost of collective action”