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Explicating journalism-as-a-conversation : two experimental tests of online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The concept of journalism as a conversation has been richly explored in descriptive studies for decades. Largely missing from the literature, though, are clear operationalizations that allow theory building for purposes ...
The virtual social capital of online communities : media use and motivations as predictors of online and offline engagement via six measures of community strength
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This research introduces a new measure of social capital for users of online communities. Whereas "local community" forms of social capital consist of ties created in local community for the benefit of local community, and "Web-local" social capital...