This study compared the use of interpersonal and mass media channels of communication among rural farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers, determine the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the usage of interpersonal and media channels, ascertain farmers’ level of awareness of interpersonal and media c...

a r t i c l e i n f o To address the longitudinal relation between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and aggressive behavior and empathy, N = 1237 seventh and eighth grade high school students in Germany completed measures of violent and nonviolent media usage, aggression, and empathy twice in twelve months. Cross-lagged panel analyses showed significant pathways from T1 media viole...

This paper reports on the results of surveys of the media usage by two small groups of students, one group in New York City and the other in Los Angeles. The voice and data traffic implications of the results are estimated. When converted to bits, the telephone traffic was much greater than the data traffic. An attempt is made to reconcile the findings with network usage data that implies that ...

Social media have become ubiquitous in our lives. To meet with the calls to examine social media usage in cross-cultural contexts, the study conducted a longitudinal survey to explore bilateral relationships between social media usage, self-efficacy and cultural intelligence. Based on Social Cognitive Theory, findings indicate that both informational and socializing usage of social media increa...

Media use has changed considerably during the past five years and earlier research has produced contradictory results on how media use links to children’s psychosocial factors.This study charts the access to and use of several media technologies among 825 Norwegian schoolchildren between 10 and 12 years of age. The questionnaire contained items concerning children’s self-concept, parental monit...

the present article employs sociological, socio-psychological and anthropological theories design a theoretical framework and model with due regard to theoretical viewpoints and experimental resources and proposes hypotheses on the basis of them. the integrative research method includes a survey and historical study. the population includes 404 teachers related to 6 tribal groups: curd, fars, t...

How does the published scientific literature used by scientific community? Many previous studies make analysis on the static usage data. In this research, we propose the concept of dynamic usage data. Based on the platform of realtime.springer.com, we have been monitoring and recording the dynamic usage data of Scientometrics articles round the clock. Our analysis find that papers published in ...

The development of science is inevitably affected by social dynamics since more and more scholarly activities are happening online. With the development of Internet and Web 2.0, the evaluation, spread, and discussion of scholarly information and publications are exposed to the whole society, breaking the strict borderline between scientists and amateurs. This paper proposes to model scientific ...