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| Third-Person Effect Survey× | Uses and Gratifications Survey× | |
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| Field | Communication | Communication |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1983 | 1973 |
| Originator≠ | W. Phillips Davison | Elihu Katz, Jay Blumler & Michael Gurevitch |
| Type≠ | Survey approach to perceived differential media influence on self versus others | Audience-centered survey approach to media motivations and rewards |
| Seminal source≠ | Davison, W. P. (1983). The third-person effect in communication. Public Opinion Quarterly, 47(1), 1–15. DOI ↗ | Katz, E., Blumler, J. G., & Gurevitch, M. (1973). Uses and gratifications research. Public Opinion Quarterly, 37(4), 509–523. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Third-person perception survey, TPE measurement, Perceived media influence survey, Üçüncü Kişi Etkisi Anketi | U&G survey, Gratifications sought and obtained survey, Media gratifications measurement, Kullanımlar ve Doyumlar Anketi |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | The third-person effect survey measures W. Phillips Davison's 1983 observation that people tend to believe persuasive media messages affect other people more than themselves. The perceptual component documents this self–other gap, while the behavioral component tests whether the gap leads people to support censorship, corrective action, or other responses aimed at protecting the supposedly more-influenced others. | The uses and gratifications survey is the dominant audience-centered method in communication research, asking not what media do to people but what people do with media. Codified by Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch in 1973, it treats audiences as active agents who select media to satisfy social and psychological needs, and it measures those motives and the rewards obtained through structured self-report scales. |
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