The Relationship Between Religiosity and Internet Use
With the solidifying of the Internet as an influential form of mediated communication has come a surge of activity among media scholars looking into what leads individuals to use this emerging technology. This study focuses on religiosity as a potential predictor of Internet activity, and uses a com...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2003]
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Journal of media and religion
Jahr: 2003, Band: 2, Heft: 3, Seiten: 129-144 |
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Zusammenfassung: | With the solidifying of the Internet as an influential form of mediated communication has come a surge of activity among media scholars looking into what leads individuals to use this emerging technology. This study focuses on religiosity as a potential predictor of Internet activity, and uses a combination of secularization theory and uses and gratifications theory as a foundation from which to posit a negative relation between these 2 variables. Religiosity is found to retain a significant negative relation with Internet use at the zero order, and remains a robust negative predictor of the criterion variable even after accounting for a host of demographic, contextual, and situational variables. Ramifications for these findings are discussed and an outline for future research building on our analyses is provided. |
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ISSN: | 1534-8415 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of media and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/S15328415JMR0203_01 |