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Becker, Lee B.; Fredin, Eric S. – 1987
An earlier phase of a research project proposed a theoretical model linking the key concepts of community commitment, media use, knowledge about community, community evaluation, and community pride as well as a series of social locator variables. The present phase of the study concerned itself with the central part of the model, ignoring the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Community Surveys, Evaluation Criteria
Becker, Lee B.; Whitney, D. Charles – 1978
A survey of 548 male and female household heads in Columbus, Ohio, was conducted in 1977 to discover the effects of dependency on different media on levels of trust toward government, knowledge about government, and perceived knowledge about government at both local and national levels. It was hypothesized that newspaper dependency is positively…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Federal Government, Local Government, Mass Media