Jabarkan Kritik dari Teori sistem ketergantungan media

Baran dan Davis mengidentifikasi empat kritik utama dari teori ketergantungan, sebagai berikut:

Variabilitas dalam pengukuran tingkat mikro dan makro menjadikan studi banding bermasalah.

Teori ini terlalu sulit untuk dibuktikan secara empiris.

Arti dan kekuatan ketergantungan terkadang kurang jelas.

Teori ketergantungan tidak memiliki kekuatan dalam menjelaskan efek jangka panjang.

Ball-Rokeach, S.J. (1998). A theory of media power and a theory of media use: Different stories, questions, and ways of thinking. Mass Communication & Society, 1(1), 5-40.

Ball-Rokeach, S.J., Power, G.J., Guthrie, K.K., Waring, H.R. (1990). Value-framing abortion in the United States: an application of media system dependency theory. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 3, 249-273.

Groshek, J. (2011). Media, instability, and democracy: Examining the Granger-causal relationships of 122 countries from 1946 to 2003. "Journal of Communication, 61," 1161-1182.

Loges, W. E. (1994). Canaries in the coal mine: Perceptions of Threat and Media System Dependency Relations. Communication Research, 21(1), 5.

Lowery, W. (2004). Media dependency during a large-scale social disruption. The case of September 11. "Mass Communication & Society, 7," 339-357.

Miller, K. (2005). Communication theories: perspectives, processes, and contexts.(2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Morton, T.A., Duck, J.M. (2001). Communication and health beliefs: mass and interpersonal influences on perceptions of risk to self and others. Communication Research, 5, 602-626.

Morton, T.A., Duck, J.M. (2000). Social identity and media dependency in the gay community. Communication Research, 4, 438-460.

Patwardhan, P., Ramaprasad J. (2005). Internet dependency relations and online activity exposure, involvement, and satisfaction: a study of American and Indian internet users. Conference Papers—International Communication Association; 2005 Annual Meeting. New York, NY, 1-32.

Riffe, D., Lacy, S., & Varouhakis, M. (2008). Media system dependency theory and using the Internet for in-depth, specialized information. "Web Journal of Mass Communication Research, 11," 1-14.

Wilkin, H.A., Ball-Rokeach, S.J. (2006). Reaching at risk groups. Journalism, 3, 299-320.