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Experience Sampling in Media Research

The experience-sampling method (ESM), also called ecological momentary assessment, prompts participants at sampled moments throughout daily life to report what they are doing, using, and feeling right now. Applied to media research, it captures media use and its momentary correlates — mood, context, motivation — in real time and in situ, minimizing recall bias and revealing how media and experience interrelate moment to moment.

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Experience Sampling Method for Media and Communication Research
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  • Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the experience-sampling method. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(9), 526–536. · DOI 10.1097/00005053-198709000-00004
  • Bolger, N., Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003). Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 579–616. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145030
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Same method familyAudience Reception Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMedia-Use Diary Methodmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPsychophysiological Measures in Media Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyUses and Gratifications Surveymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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