‘Checking’ and googling: Stages of news consumption among young adults

Abstract

In the changing news environment, young adult audiences, often dubbed ‘the Internet generation’, have increasingly gravitated toward online sources of news and information, raising questions about the nature and amount of news consumed. This study joins many others in looking at the emerging processes of news consumption among, in this case, college students, using focus group interviews to further examine how they go about obtaining news. Drawing upon literature in the areas of news consumption, media habits, generational change and news repertoire, this study identifies an emerging three-stage process of consumption that includes the following: routine surveillance, incidental consumption, and directed consumption, each conditioned by various forms of new media use. It suggests continued research in the interaction of a changing media ecology with generational adoption of news habits and the implications of this interaction for news and news engagement.

An Investigation of Online News Consumption Behaviour of a Malaysian Higher Education Institution: A Case Study of Southern University College

“…recipe). The results in this study show that it is consistent with the study of Antunovic et al (2016) stating that young people usually receive news intentionally. With the research of Yadamsuren & Erdelez in 2011, they found that incidental exposure has become the typical way that people nowadays get news online.…”

“…The rise of network brings convenience to society. People nowadays tend to get information online rather than offline (Antunovic, et al, 2016). A report from Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) in 2015 states that 90% of Malaysia's Internet users regard the internet as a source of information and that according to 86.9% of the internet users, social media has become the main source of information.…”

“…(Qayyum, et al, 2010;Saodah Wok et al, 2011). Nevertheless, online news sources serve as an extension of news sources when students need more details about some story that was produced by the established news organizations, such as a traditional television website and newspaper outlets (Antunovic, et al, 2016).…”

A comparative study of online news use by young adults in Canada and Japan

“…Given the important links between news use, civic and political engagement and media literacy skills among young adults, this study builds upon and contributes to current research focused on local and cross‐national use of news media by young adults (e.g. Antunovic, Parsons, & Cooke, ; Elvestad, Phillips & Feuerstein, 2017).…”

Visibilidad de los investigadores de la Universidad de Antioquia en medios de comunicación internacionales, nacionales y regionales-locales

“…Normalmente, la mayoría de agencias de financiación, universidades, grupos e investigadores, cuando se habla de impacto, tienen una concepción o énfasis en un tipo específico, como es el impacto científico (o académico), lo cual se viene cuestionando en los últimos años. 1 Podemos entender este impacto científico como: …the impact that scientific research has within the academic sphere. Academic impact is traditionally measured through the use of author metrics such as per-author and per-journal citation counts.…”