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[edit] 10-13-07, Case 2002

Has a great chart of who uses which theories, p 153

Bunch of people he cites:

• Renckstorf and McQuail tie their stuff to uses/gratifications -- ok, "uses" is helpful to me, but the "gratifications" stuff feels antiquated
• Stephenson 1967 -- play theory of information, basically a gratifications thing
  • because we tend to mix work with play?
• Kay 1955 -- kinda antiquated, but thinking of news as an "intellectual puzzle" of thinking why something has happened, I like that
  • and how does that relate to class differences in news reading, in who you "are" because of what you read
• FIND Toms 1999, update on play theory: "There was no 'need', no anomalous state of knowledge and no knowledge gap encountered" (Case p 151, p 202 of Toms)
• FIND Mood management theories, mid-1980s-1990s, lab studies on ppl using media to supplant anxiety
  • Kubey & Czikszentmihalyi 1990: mood management of watching TV lasts less long than reading or playing with others
• Wilson 1994 calls library studies irrelevant (Case p 231)

FIND Raimie and Packel, PEW 2001