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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
卷 18, 期 2, 页码 141-162出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/105846001750322952
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civic engagement; generational differences; Internet use; interpersonal trust; life contentment; newspaper use; social capital; television use
This article explores the relationship between Internet use and the individual-level production of serial capital. To do so, the authors adopt a motivational perspective to distinguish among types of Internet use when examining the factors predicting civic engagement, interpersonal trust, and life contentment. The predictive power of new media use is then analyzed relative to key demographic, contextual, and traditional media use variables using the 1999 DDB Life Style Study. Although the size of associations is generally small, the data suggest that informational uses of the Internet are positively related to individual differences in the production of social capital, whereas social-recreational uses are negatively related to these civic indicators. Analyses within subsamples defined by generational age breaks further suggest that social capital production is related to Internet use among Generation X, while it is tied to television use among Baby Boomers cmd newspaper use among members of the Civic Generation. The possibility of life cycle and cohort effects is discussed.
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