Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap - Volume 39, Issue 1, 2011

Dit nummer van het Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap bevat vijf artikelen over uiteenlopende onderwerpen.Het eerste artikel gaat over de websites van topmerken. In De relatie tussen objectieve en gepercipieerde interactiviteit combineren Hilde Voorveld, Peter Neijens en Edith Smit twee methoden van dataverzameling. Door middel van een inhoudsanalyse analyseren ze de interactieve functies op websites van 65 to Read More

The relationship between actual and perceived interactivity The relationship between actual and perceived interactivity The aim of this study is twofold. The first aim is to investigate two forms of interactivity on websites of the top global brands: actual and perceived interactivity. The second aim is to study the relationship between actual and perceived interactivity. By means of a content analysis and survey we mapped the le Read More

Framing the First and Second Intifada in the Flemish and Dutch press: a case study of De Morgen and NRC Handelsblad Framing the First and Second Intifada in the Flemish and Dutch press: a case study of De Morgen and NRC Handelsblad This article studies the coverage of both Intifadas in the Flemish newspaper De Morgen and the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad by means of a deductive frame analysis. This co Read More

Social contact in a MMORPG. An exploratory study into the motivations of playing World of Warcraft from a uses & gratifications perspective. Social contact in a MMORPG. An exploratory study into the motivations of playing World of Warcraft from a uses & gratifications perspective. The results of a study on motivations for playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG), c.q. World of Warcraft (WoW), on 169 Read More

A typology of young news users in the Low Countries A typology of young news users in the Low Countries This article investigates different types of young news users (15-34 years) in the Low Countries. Therefore a survey among 1200 Flemish and Dutch youngsters and adolescents was conducted, analyzing the combined use of media platforms for news consumption and time spent with these news carriers. The cluster Read More

Media use and adolescents’ risk taking in traffic: a literature review Media use and adolescents’ risk taking in traffic: a literature review The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the research on the relationship between media use and adolescents’ risk taking in traffic. In sum, two main approaches on this issue can be found in the literature. First, following Cultivation Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) med Read More