A Longitudinal Study of Mass Media Development in Less-Developed Countries.

Autor/in	Shah, Hemant
Titel	A Longitudinal Study of Mass Media Development in Less-Developed Countries.
Quelle	(1985), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Change Agents; Communications; Developing Nations; Information Sources; Longitudinal Studies; Mass Media; Media Research; Predictor Variables; Technological Advancement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachrichtenwesen; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Information source; Informationsquelle; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Massenmedien; Medienforschung; Prädiktor; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung
Abstract	A study was conducted to examine the causal predictors of mass media development in 105 underdeveloped countries for various lengths of time to determine if there were consistent relationships among the dependent and independent variables regardless of the time lag. The study also sought to determine how mass media developed during the 29-year period by examining the strength of predictors at five points in time and by examining the relationships between the strongest predictor and the other independent variables. Results indicated that urbanization and availability of resources were the strongest predictors of mass media development, that education was found to be not as important as had been assumed, that the relationships between mass media development and its predictors differ according to the region of the world studied and with the time period examined, and that urbanism and availability of resources may be reciprocally related over time. (EL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01