Public Connection through Media Consumption

Between Oversocialization and De-Socialization

Bibliographic Data

ID9763518
AuthorsN Couldry (0000-0001-8233-3287, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author), Tim Markham (0000-0002-7304-2610, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Year2006
Volume608
Issue1
Pages251-269
Publication date2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716206292342
OpenAlexW1562668878
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited17

This article reviews the ongoing contribution of Personal Influence to our understanding of media' social consequences from the perspective of recent research (the London School of Economics “Public Connection” project, 2003-2006, conducted by the authors and Sonia Livingstone) into the extent to which shared habits of media consumption help sustain, or not, U.K. citizens' orientation to a public world. As well as reviewing specific findings of the Public Connection project that intersect with themes of Personal Influence(particularly on citizens' networks of social interaction and the available discursive contexts in which they can put their mediated knowledge of the public world to use), the article reviews the methodological similarities and differences between this recent project and that of Katz and Lazarsfeld. The result, the authors conclude, is to confirm the continued salience of the questions about the social embeddedness of media influences that Katz and Lazarsfeld posed

Consumption (sociology · Embeddedness · Media consumption · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Salience (neuroscience · Social media · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology