Cross-National Similarities and Differences between Legacy and Digital-Born News Media Audiences

Vara-Miguel, Alfonso

doi:10.17645/mac.v8i2.2733

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“…Tailored risk communication messages may focus not only on how to best represent key information and messages to evince behaviour change in general but also on how to tailor such information to the segments and then disseminate it through appropriate channels in order to reach each segment (Andor and Fels, 2018 ; Rosenthal and Linder, 2021 ). There is now a significant body of research in communication studies that suggests that information channels, platforms, news outlets and media types can vary widely by demographic profiles and population segments (see, for example, Althaus et al, 2009 ; Diehl et al, 2019 ; Dutta-Bergman, 2004 ; Shehata and Strömbäck, 2021 ; Vara-Miguel, 2020 ). Hence, the relationship between population classes of ACCRs attitudes, patterns of media use, trust in different sources, and information seeking behaviours warrant exploration in future research.…”

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Attitudes to climate change risk: classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020

Liu

Shryane

Elliot

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Strategies for achieving carbon emissions goals presuppose changes in individual behaviour, which can be indirectly nudged by interventions or tailored information but ultimately depend upon individual attitudes. Specifically, the perception that climate change is low risk has been identified as a barrier to participation in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. Therefore, understanding public attitudes towards climate change risk is an important element of reducing emissions. We applied k-means cluster analysis to explore attitudes to climate change risk in the UK population using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, a national survey running from 2009 to present. We identified three distinct attitude clusters: “Sceptical”, “Concerned”, and “Paradoxical” in both waves 4 (from 2012 to 2014) and 10 (from 2018 to 2020) of this survey. The Sceptical cluster tended to deny the seriousness of climate change and the urgency or even the necessity of dealing with it. The Concerned cluster displayed anxiety about climate change risks and supported action to reduce them. The Paradoxical cluster acknowledged the reality of climate change impacts but did not support actions to mitigate them. We further observed statistical associations between cluster membership and the social characteristics of the participants, including sex, age, income, education, and political affiliation. We also found a temporal stability of cluster structure between the two waves. However, the transition matrices indicated a general transition away from the Sceptical and Paradoxical clusters, and toward the Concerned cluster between wave 4 to wave 10. The findings suggest that more tailored public information campaigns regarding climate change risk may be necessary.

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Attitudes to climate change risk: classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020

Liu

Shryane

Elliot

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…With the introduction of online and social media platforms, cohort-specific divergence in news consumption has become ever more discernible (Vara-Miguel, 2020). Differences between older generations, who grew up in a print and broadcast news environment and who are relatively late in adapting online sources to their lives, and younger generations, who have grown up in digital media environments, find expression in "generational gaps" (Andersen et al, 2021) in relation to media use.…”

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Types of Information Orientation and Information Levels Among Young and Old News Audiences

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2022

MaC

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Studies on audiences’ information behavior paint a mixed picture of young and old people’s interests, their involvement with news and information, and the effects news consumption has on their learning. By adapting Giddens’s structuration approach, this study aims to assess audience behavior and its relationship with journalism by comparing the use behavior and attitudes of three age groups—adolescents, young adults, and adults—as characterized by distinct media socialization and use patterns. We identify types of information orientation—that is, a typology of behavior and attitudes towards news and information—for the examination of news audiences. Based on a representative face-to-face survey (N = 1,508) with German adolescents (14–17 years old), young adults (18–24 years old), and adults (40–53 years old), we identify four types that can be characterized by a certain pattern of news-related attitudes, the use of sources, and their relevance to opinion formation, as well as the perceived information level of participants. We examine how these types of information orientation differ between and among the three age groups and explore their relationship with audiences’ socio-political knowledge. The findings show that not all young people are necessarily less interested and engaged with news and journalism than older people. Moreover, it is a combination of interest with the use and perceived relevance of journalistic sources that is relevant for positive effects on information levels.

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“…Frequently, they anchor their heritage in the quality of their content and of their consumer relations [57]. For traditional brands, it is economically rational to cover news in a quality-oriented manner [58,59]. By including quality as a part of their brand identity, non-native outlets find an audience that is ready to pay money, or at least attention, for this sort of coverage [60].…”

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Funding Sustainable Online News: Sources of Revenue in Digital-Native and Traditional Media in Spain

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Digital news publishers strive to balance revenue streams in their business models: as standard advertising declines, alternatives for sustaining digital journalism arise in the forms of sponsored content, user donations and payments—one-off purchases, subscriptions or memberships, public or private grants, electronic commerce, events and consulting. An exhaustive study found 2874 active online news publications in Spain, and it observed the adoption of such models in early 2021. Advertising remains the most popular source of income for digital news operations (85.8%) and most sites rely on just one or two revenue streams (74.5%). We compare the cases in our census by their origin (digital-native or non-native), geography (local/regional or national/global) and topic scope (generalist or specialized). We find that traditional, national and specialized online media have a broader and more innovative revenue mix than digital-native, regional or local and general-interest news outlets. The comprehensiveness of this pioneering study sheds light for the first time on the risk that the lack of diversification and innovation in funding sources may imperil the financial sustainability of some online news operations in Spain, mostly those with a smaller scope and no backing from a traditional business, according to the results we present here.

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Cross-National Similarities and Differences between Legacy and Digital-Born News Media Audiences

Cited by 23 publications

References 63 publications

Attitudes to climate change risk: classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020

Attitudes to climate change risk: classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020

Types of Information Orientation and Information Levels Among Young and Old News Audiences

Funding Sustainable Online News: Sources of Revenue in Digital-Native and Traditional Media in Spain

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