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Uses and Grats 2.0: New Gratifications for New Media
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This article responds to recent calls for conceptual and methodological refinement, issued by uses-and-gratifications scholars (Rubin, 2009 Rubin, A. M. 2009. “The uses-and-gratifications perspective on media effects.”. In Media effects: Advances in theory and research , 3rd ed. Edited by: Bryant, J. and Oliver, M. B. 165–184. New York, NY: Routledge.. [Google Scholar]; Ruggiero, 2000 Ruggiero, T. E. 2000. Uses and gratifications theory in the 21st century. Mass Communication & Society, 3: 3–37. doi: 10.1207/S15327825MCS0301_02[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]), for studying emergent media. Noting that studies on the uses of the Internet have generated a list of gratifications that are remarkably similar to those obtained from older media, it identifies two measurement artifacts—(1) measures designed for older media are used to capture gratifications from newer media; and (2) gratifications are conceptualized and operationalized too broadly (e.g., information-seeking), thus missing the nuanced gratifications obtained from newer media. It challenges the notion that all gratifications are borne out of innate needs, and proposes that affordances of media technology can shape user needs, giving rise to new and distinctive gratifications. A sample of new gratifications and potential measures for those are provided.
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“This affordance-based turn recognized that gratifications emerge not only from media content but from modalities of interaction, including modality, agency, interactivity, and navigability.”
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“a shift consistent with affordance-based extensions of U&G (Sundar & Limperos, 2013) but intensified by the AI's capacity to calibrate responses to individual users in real time.”
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“As media environments shifted from mass broadcasting to digital and interactive platforms, U&G scholars extended the framework to incorporate technological affordances that enable or constrain gratification attainment (Sundar & Limperos, 2013).”
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- Authors
- Sundar, S. S., & Limperos, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- ORCID
- Sundar, S. Shyam
- Venue
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-10
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 504-525
- ISSN
- 0883-8151 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-6878
- OpenAlex
- W2020266303
- Cited by
- 1,070
- References
- 65
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- FWCI
- 44.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Influence and Health
- Keywords
- uses and gratifications theory, new media, media gratifications, measurement artifacts, media affordances, information seeking, user needs, internet use
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