2. Examining the effects of internet use on television viewing/ Kraut, Kiesler, Boneva, Shklovski

The varied research about the social or psychological influence of the internet sometimes reaches to limited or erroneous conclusions - because it uses cross- sectional data to draw causal implicaions and because it does not distinguish between the varied uses of the internet - different uses of the internet yield differet effect on its users. This research aims to differenciate among uses of the internet and to identify wheather these uses lead to changes in other media use (T.V. in particular). one hypothesis is that internet will reduce the dominance of T.V. among american households, as T.V. led to the reducing in listening to radio, reading newspapers or going to the cinema. The T.V. is a technology that displaces another technology since it can be used for similar actions as the old technology. Does inernet use influence the time spent on T.V. viewing?