Nojin Kwak

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between Internet use and individual-level production of social capital and found that informational uses of the Internet are positively related to individual differences in the production of Social capital, whereas social-recreational uses are negatively related to these civic indicators.

TL;DR: Results reveal that the model produces the best fit, empirically and theoretically, with the influence of the Internet, rivaling the mobilizing power of traditional modes of information and expression.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between environmental concern, five forms of television viewing, and pro-environmental behaviors and found that television news and nature documentary use are predicted by environmental concern and contribute to proenvironmental behaviours.

TL;DR: The authors found that people's behavioral involvement in the 1992 presidential campaign influenced the knowledge gap between education groups such that the gap was significantly smaller among those with a higher level of involvement, while respondents' television news viewing during the campaign significantly reduced the knowledge gaps between groups.

TL;DR: Panel analyses found that most of the causal relationships predicted by the “cognitive mediation model” are mutually causal, and future research should consider the reciprocal nature of relationships between information processing and knowledge, particularly as it relates to the study of the knowledge gap hypothesis.