Internet Information-Seeking and Its Relation to Support for Access to Government Records.

摘要: Abstract Public access to government records is essential for democratic self-governance, and attitudes toward that right can facilitate or hinder public policy regarding transparency. As more people use the internet gathering information about their governments communities, it unknown whether such online information-seeking related increased support transparency request records. This paper applies a uses gratification theory approach examine its relation citizen press Three U.S. studies examined media-use correlates with transparency: questionnaire survey of college students (N = 614), an (N = 1819), random-digit-dial telephone randomly selected adults (N = 403). Analyses indicated varying results television newspaper use, but in all three datasets reliance on was positively associated Implications society increasingly reliant are discussed.