Abstract:Media researchers aim to accurately explain and predict people’s media selection. Explanation is an accurate description of the causal mechanisms that govern media selection whereas prediction is focused on making accurate inferences about unobserved data. However, meta-analyses demonstrate that existing media selection theories and models have limited explanatory accuracy. The predictive accuracy of these theories and models is unknown. Our project bridges this gap by empirically specifying how predictable, i… Show more
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