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Towers, Wayne M. – 1985
In direct replication of a previous study investigating newspaper readership and uses-and-gratifications statements, this study interviewed a parallel random sample from the same market as the initial study using the same questions. A telephone survey of 557 adults was conducted by trained undergraduates enrolled in an advanced research methods…
Descriptors: Adults, Media Research, Newspapers, Reading Habits
Towers, Wayne M.; Hartung, Barbara W. – 1983
Approximately 500 people participated in a study that examined the relationship between generalized uses-and-gratifications statements and specific magazine reading behaviors. The subjects responded to a telephone survey that elicited information concerning demographics, media usage, and reactions to 14 uses-and-gratifications statements that had…
Descriptors: Adults, Audiences, Behavior Patterns, Media Research
Towers, Wayne M. – 1984
Prompted by the lack of use and gratification studies that have concerned themselves with an examination of newspaper-related behaviors such as subscribing versus not subscribing, buying single copies versus not reading at all, and weekday versus Sunday newspaper readership, a study conducted a telephone survey of 543 persons to determine whether…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Newspapers
Towers, Wayne M.; Hartung, Barbara W. – 1985
Since the concepts of surveillance (international information and keeping up with the job that the government is doing), diversion (being entertained and killing time), and interaction (people learning more about themselves) have been developed for newspaper and television but not necessarily for magazines, a study applied 14…
Descriptors: Adults, Incentives, Information Needs, Journalism
Towers, Wayne M. – 1982
A study collected data from 763 door-to-door interviews to test hypotheses about the uses and gratifications associated with newspaper readerships. In the interviews, respondents were identified demographically, asked about their newspaper reading behaviors, and asked to reply to a series of uses and gratifications statements on why they read…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research