Community Ties and Dependence on Media for Public Affairs

Abstract

This report of a telephone survey of 373 respondents indicates a significant relationship between those individuals who demonstrate strong community ties and those who use certain types of media. The study, which measured several different kinds of community ties, also found that media user types were most likely to differ in terms of their ties to community processes. The author calls for future research to sort out which community ties are antecedents to and which are consequences of media use.