본 연구에서는 인터넷 사용과 신문, 방송 등 기존 매체의 수용정도 사이의 관계를 미디어 대체이론, 이용과 충족이론을 중심으로 살펴보았다. 새로운 매체와 기존 매체의 관계가 상호보완적인 것이 될 것인지, 완전 대체가 될 것인지는 새로 등장한 매체가 기존의 매체에 비교해서 수용자가 원하는 목적을 얼마나 충족시켜줄 수 있는지에 달려있다. CATI(Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing)로 실시한 설문조사의 데이터 분석결과, 인터넷 사용빈도와 신문 열독정도 사이의 관계에서 인터넷 사용과 신문 열독 사이에는 정적인 상관관계가 나타났고, 인터넷 사용과 텔레비전 시청 사이에는 부적인 상관관계가 나타났다. 인터넷의 보급이 기존 매체의 소비를 감소시킬 것이라는 우려는 매체의 종류에 따라서 달라진다고 할 수 있다. 또한 인터넷을 사용하는 심리적인 동기를 조사한 결과 7가지의 독립적인 인터넷 사용동기 인자가 나타났는데, 크게 분류를 하자면 업무관련, 오락, 사회적인 관계형성 등을 위한 동기이다. 인터넷 사용빈도에 영향을 주는 변인들로는 응답자의 수입정도와 ‘혁신성’과 같은 태도변인이 주요한 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다.
This study examines the relationship between the traditional media use and the Internet use. The research was conducted in the framework of the following two theories : uses and gratifications approach and the media substitution hypothesis. The present study extends past work on the application of the uses and gratifications framework from old to new media contexts. In that regard, it further validates the utility of this perspective for investigating the adoption and use of new media. Given the exploratory nature of this study, the following research questions were investigated: i) What is the relationship between the traditional media use and the Internet use?; ii) What are the psychological factors attributing to the adoption and use of the Internet?; iii) What is the relative influence of demographics, traditional media use, attitudes toward new media, and audience mediause motives on the Internet use?; and iv) Considering the uses and gratifications factors in the Internet use, how do media uses and gratifications relate to adoption of the Internet? To investigate these research questions, a national level survey was conducted in February 1999, using the CATI(Computer-Aided Telephone Interviewing) system in the Communication Research Center in the Department of Communication at Cleveland State University in the United States. Using the CATI system, a total of 428 adults were interviewed in the U.S. The questionnaire for this study was constructed using the following variables: media use, currently owned communication technologies, motives using the Internet, frequency of use of the Internet, attitudes toward the Internet and communication technologies, including computers, and demographics. The analysis results show that there is a positive relationship between the newspaper readership and the Internet use. However, between the Internet use and television viewing, a negative relationship was found. To identify different factors in the motivation variable, a principal components analysis, was conducted. The following seven factors emerged as a result of the factor analysis: relaxation, work-related use, news, loneliness/companionship, social relationship, escapism, and pass time. These seven factors explained 68 percent of the variance. The next step involved a multivariate analysis of the relationships between a series of demographic, attitudinal, and behavioral variables and the major dependent variable: Internet use. To check the predictive power of demographic and attitudinal variables regarding the public’s use of on-line information, seven independent variables were used in the analysis, including the demographics, media use index, attitudes towards new technology, and the innovativeness index. The analysis results show that the respondent’s income level and the innovativeness index were statistically significant predictors of the Internet use. This study echoes past work on new media adoption, which uncovers weak but significant positive correlations between perceived motives associated with the use of the new media use and the old media use. In that regard, it provides credence to the theoretical assumption that audience media-use motives are important factors for the use of computer-mediated communication channels.
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Ⅰ. 들어가는 글 Ⅱ. 이론적 배경 Ⅲ. 연구방법 Ⅳ. 분석결과 Ⅴ. 결론과 논의 참고문헌 Abstract