Mohan J Dutta-Bergman
Biographic Data
| ID | 295256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohan J Dutta-Bergman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dutta-Bergman |
| SIGNATURE | DUTTA-BERGMAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Community Participation and Internet Use after September 11: Complementarity in Channel Consumption
Crises spark off a wide variety of communicative activities; extant research documents the critical role of the community during crises. The terrorist attacks of September 11 fundamentally challenged the very fabric of American society. How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 in their communicative choices? Based on the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that individuals who parti…
U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: A Critical Cultural Approach
A growing body of literature in the field of public relations has delved into the topic of public diplomacy; this growing interest in public diplomacy is juxtaposed in the backdrop of the recent increase in U.S. public diplomacy efforts in the Middle East. Based on a critical analysis of U.S. pubic diplomacy strategies in the Middle East, the author argues that the traditional models of public diplomacy continue to circulate in current public dip…
Theory and Practice in Health Communication Campaigns: A Critical Interrogation
In recent reviews of the body of work on health campaigns, communication scholars discussed the importance of reflective thinking about the capacity of campaigns to effect change; this reflective thinking is especially important in the realm of the increasing gaps in society between the health rich and the health poor and the increasing marginalization of the poorer sections of society. This article critically reviews 3 central theories of health…
Access to the internet in the context of community participation and community satisfaction
The introduction of the internet in American life has led to debate among media scholars, sociologists and political scientists about the role of the internet in society. Two areas of research that have received substantial attention in the domain of internet effects are the digital divide and social capital. Digital divide researchers have pointed out the critical gaps in society among different groups in the context of their access to new media…
The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction
The linkage between the Internet and the offline community has been the subject of considerable research in the last decade. Scholars have been particularly interested in the effects of the Internet on offline community, and the relationship between Internet use and community participation. Based on the social shaping of technology and channel complementarity theories, this study proposes that community participation will be positively related to…
The Negotiation of U.S. Advertising Among Bengali Immigrants: A Journey in Hybridity
The process of globalization has unsettled the idea of territories and space, disrupting certainties of culture and altering the way identities are constructed. Understanding diasporic complexitiescan inform media studies about the intersection of globality and locality and the issue of identity. However, this has remained a marginal area of inquiry in communication studies, particularly in advertising research. With an ever-increasing number of …
Primary Sources of Health Information: Comparisons in the Domain of Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors
The recent growth in consumer autonomy in health care accompanied by the surge in the use of new media for health information gathering has led to an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the consumer health information search construct. This article explores consumer health information seeking in the realm of the primary sources of health information used by consumers. Based on an analysis of the 1999 HealthStyles data, the paper demons…
The Impact of Completeness and Web Use Motivation on the Credibility of e-Health Information
Journal Article The Impact of Completeness and Web Use Motivation on the Credibility of e-Health Information Get access Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman 1Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an assistant professor of health communication campaigns in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Iss…
Complementarity in Consumption of News Types Across Traditional and New Media
A substantive body of research on the relationship between traditional and new media builds upon the competition-based displacement theory, based on the argument that media types compete with each other for resources. This paper takes an alternative approach and suggests the idea of media complementarity. Media complementarity implies a congruence between the consumption of online and traditional media within a specific content domain. The result…
Poverty, Structural Barriers, and Health: A Santali Narrative of Health Communication
Recent years have witnessed a surge in scholarship that problematizes the linear, Eurocentric approach to international health communication and suggests the pressing need for a culture-centered approach. This author takes a culture-centered approach to exploring the Santali meanings of health in rural Bengal. The open-ended interviews conducted with the Santals bring to surface key issues and meaningful theories of health. Central to the Santali…
Interpersonal communication after 9/11 via telephone and internet: A theory of channel complementarity
How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 (‘9/11’) in their communicative choices? Proposing the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that users of a medium who satisfy a particular functional need also use other media types to fulfill that need. Based on an analysis of the data gathered by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press immediately after the 9/11 attacks, it dem…
The Unheard Voices of Santalis: Communicating About Health From the Margins of India
This article takes a culture-centered approach to exploring Santali meanings of health in rural Bengal. My conversations with Santalis and field journal accounts of interactions with Santali men and women bring to the surface critical issues and meaningful theories of health. The discursive constructions demonstrate that Santali health beliefs are polymorphic, accommodating multiple treatment approaches to disease and illness. On one hand, Santal…
Health communication on the web: The roles of web use motivation and information completeness
Recent articles on the evaluation of the quality of health information on the World Wide Web reveal an emphasis on the completeness of information. This paper takes a situational approach to Web usage arguing that the impact of completeness on attitude and intention toward the issue is moderated by Web use motivation. Borrowing the analogy between low–high involvement and surfing–searching, it was hypothesized that the effect of completeness woul…
Money and Meaning in India and Great Britain: Tales of Similarities and Differences
This article compares and contrasts the discourses of money and property in India and Great Britain. Whereas the Indian concept of money reflects a polymorphic philosophy, the British approach is dualistic in nature. A comparison of Indian and British texts brings out the extraverted nature of the British versus the introverted nature of the Indians. Whereas the British use an external referential context to define money, the Indians use an inter…
The Unheard Voices of Santalis: Communicating About Health From the Margins of India
This article takes a culture-centered approach to exploring Santali meanings of health in rural Bengal. My conversations with Santalis and field journal accounts of interactions with Santali men and women bring to the surface critical issues and meaningful theories of health. The discursive constructions demonstrate that Santali health beliefs are polymorphic, accommodating multiple treatment approaches to disease and illness. On one hand, Santal…
Access to the internet in the context of community participation and community satisfaction
The introduction of the internet in American life has led to debate among media scholars, sociologists and political scientists about the role of the internet in society. Two areas of research that have received substantial attention in the domain of internet effects are the digital divide and social capital. Digital divide researchers have pointed out the critical gaps in society among different groups in the context of their access to new media…
Interpersonal communication after 9/11 via telephone and internet: A theory of channel complementarity
How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 (‘9/11’) in their communicative choices? Proposing the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that users of a medium who satisfy a particular functional need also use other media types to fulfill that need. Based on an analysis of the data gathered by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press immediately after the 9/11 attacks, it dem…
Community Participation and Internet Use after September 11: Complementarity in Channel Consumption
Crises spark off a wide variety of communicative activities; extant research documents the critical role of the community during crises. The terrorist attacks of September 11 fundamentally challenged the very fabric of American society. How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 in their communicative choices? Based on the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that individuals who parti…
The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction
The linkage between the Internet and the offline community has been the subject of considerable research in the last decade. Scholars have been particularly interested in the effects of the Internet on offline community, and the relationship between Internet use and community participation. Based on the social shaping of technology and channel complementarity theories, this study proposes that community participation will be positively related to…
U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: A Critical Cultural Approach
A growing body of literature in the field of public relations has delved into the topic of public diplomacy; this growing interest in public diplomacy is juxtaposed in the backdrop of the recent increase in U.S. public diplomacy efforts in the Middle East. Based on a critical analysis of U.S. pubic diplomacy strategies in the Middle East, the author argues that the traditional models of public diplomacy continue to circulate in current public dip…
Health communication on the web: The roles of web use motivation and information completeness
Recent articles on the evaluation of the quality of health information on the World Wide Web reveal an emphasis on the completeness of information. This paper takes a situational approach to Web usage arguing that the impact of completeness on attitude and intention toward the issue is moderated by Web use motivation. Borrowing the analogy between low–high involvement and surfing–searching, it was hypothesized that the effect of completeness woul…
Money and Meaning in India and Great Britain: Tales of Similarities and Differences
This article compares and contrasts the discourses of money and property in India and Great Britain. Whereas the Indian concept of money reflects a polymorphic philosophy, the British approach is dualistic in nature. A comparison of Indian and British texts brings out the extraverted nature of the British versus the introverted nature of the Indians. Whereas the British use an external referential context to define money, the Indians use an inter…
Health communication on the web: The roles of web use motivation and information completeness
Recent articles on the evaluation of the quality of health information on the World Wide Web reveal an emphasis on the completeness of information. This paper takes a situational approach to Web usage arguing that the impact of completeness on attitude and intention toward the issue is moderated by Web use motivation. Borrowing the analogy between low–high involvement and surfing–searching, it was hypothesized that the effect of completeness woul…
Primary Sources of Health Information: Comparisons in the Domain of Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors
The recent growth in consumer autonomy in health care accompanied by the surge in the use of new media for health information gathering has led to an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the consumer health information search construct. This article explores consumer health information seeking in the realm of the primary sources of health information used by consumers. Based on an analysis of the 1999 HealthStyles data, the paper demons…
The Impact of Completeness and Web Use Motivation on the Credibility of e-Health Information
Journal Article The Impact of Completeness and Web Use Motivation on the Credibility of e-Health Information Get access Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman 1Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an assistant professor of health communication campaigns in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Iss…
Complementarity in Consumption of News Types Across Traditional and New Media
A substantive body of research on the relationship between traditional and new media builds upon the competition-based displacement theory, based on the argument that media types compete with each other for resources. This paper takes an alternative approach and suggests the idea of media complementarity. Media complementarity implies a congruence between the consumption of online and traditional media within a specific content domain. The result…
Poverty, Structural Barriers, and Health: A Santali Narrative of Health Communication
Recent years have witnessed a surge in scholarship that problematizes the linear, Eurocentric approach to international health communication and suggests the pressing need for a culture-centered approach. This author takes a culture-centered approach to exploring the Santali meanings of health in rural Bengal. The open-ended interviews conducted with the Santals bring to surface key issues and meaningful theories of health. Central to the Santali…
Interpersonal communication after 9/11 via telephone and internet: A theory of channel complementarity
How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 (‘9/11’) in their communicative choices? Proposing the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that users of a medium who satisfy a particular functional need also use other media types to fulfill that need. Based on an analysis of the data gathered by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press immediately after the 9/11 attacks, it dem…
The Unheard Voices of Santalis: Communicating About Health From the Margins of India
This article takes a culture-centered approach to exploring Santali meanings of health in rural Bengal. My conversations with Santalis and field journal accounts of interactions with Santali men and women bring to the surface critical issues and meaningful theories of health. The discursive constructions demonstrate that Santali health beliefs are polymorphic, accommodating multiple treatment approaches to disease and illness. On one hand, Santal…
Theory and Practice in Health Communication Campaigns: A Critical Interrogation
In recent reviews of the body of work on health campaigns, communication scholars discussed the importance of reflective thinking about the capacity of campaigns to effect change; this reflective thinking is especially important in the realm of the increasing gaps in society between the health rich and the health poor and the increasing marginalization of the poorer sections of society. This article critically reviews 3 central theories of health…
Access to the internet in the context of community participation and community satisfaction
The introduction of the internet in American life has led to debate among media scholars, sociologists and political scientists about the role of the internet in society. Two areas of research that have received substantial attention in the domain of internet effects are the digital divide and social capital. Digital divide researchers have pointed out the critical gaps in society among different groups in the context of their access to new media…
The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction
The linkage between the Internet and the offline community has been the subject of considerable research in the last decade. Scholars have been particularly interested in the effects of the Internet on offline community, and the relationship between Internet use and community participation. Based on the social shaping of technology and channel complementarity theories, this study proposes that community participation will be positively related to…
The Negotiation of U.S. Advertising Among Bengali Immigrants: A Journey in Hybridity
The process of globalization has unsettled the idea of territories and space, disrupting certainties of culture and altering the way identities are constructed. Understanding diasporic complexitiescan inform media studies about the intersection of globality and locality and the issue of identity. However, this has remained a marginal area of inquiry in communication studies, particularly in advertising research. With an ever-increasing number of …
Community Participation and Internet Use after September 11: Complementarity in Channel Consumption
Crises spark off a wide variety of communicative activities; extant research documents the critical role of the community during crises. The terrorist attacks of September 11 fundamentally challenged the very fabric of American society. How did Americans respond to the crisis posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11 in their communicative choices? Based on the theory of channel complementarity, this article argues that individuals who parti…
U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: A Critical Cultural Approach
A growing body of literature in the field of public relations has delved into the topic of public diplomacy; this growing interest in public diplomacy is juxtaposed in the backdrop of the recent increase in U.S. public diplomacy efforts in the Middle East. Based on a critical analysis of U.S. pubic diplomacy strategies in the Middle East, the author argues that the traditional models of public diplomacy continue to circulate in current public dip…
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