News Consumption Across Multiple Media Platforms

Yuan, Elaine J.

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2010.549235

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“…One argues that the consumption of online news complements that of print and broadcast media [39], [40], [48], [51], [54]. The alternative camp suggests that there is a displacement effect whereby increased consumption of online news decreases time and attention devoted to news in print and broadcast media [17], [20], [22].…”

Section: News Consumption In Digital Mediamentioning

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Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

Boczkowski¹,

Mitchelstein²,

Matassi³

2017

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

Boczkowski¹,

Mitchelstein²,

Matassi³

2017

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013) and surveys to map self-declared usage rates (e.g. Mitchell, Holcomb, and Page 2013;Newman, Levy, and Nielsen 2015;Yuan 2011). Such studies address questions about which news outlets are most frequently used or on what stories users spend the most time.…”

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“…Much user research (e.g. Chyi and Lee 2013) tends to concentrate on the use of only a few news media, rather than the entire media landscape, and then only discretely rather than relationally (Helles et al 2015;Yuan 2011). We argue that in order to fully understand how audiences experience news use, we should look at news consumption holistically.…”

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Navigating cross-media news use

2016

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The current news media landscape is characterized by an abundance of digital outlets and increased opportunities for users to navigate news themselves. Yet, it is still unclear how people negotiate this fluctuating environment to decide which news media to select or ignore, how they assemble distinctive cross-media repertoires, and what makes these compositions meaningful. This article analyzes the value of different platforms, genres, and practices in everyday life by mapping patterns of cross-media news use. Combining Q methodology with think-aloud protocols and day-in-the-life-interviews, five distinct news media repertoires are identified: (1) regionally oriented, (2) background oriented, (3) digital, (4) laid-back, and (5) nationally oriented news use. Our findings indicate that users do not always use what they prefer, nor do they prefer what they use. Moreover, the boundaries they draw between news and other information are clearly shifting. Finally, our results show that in a world with a wide range of possibilities to consume news for free, paying for news can be considered an act of civic engagement. We argue that perceived news use and users' appreciation of news should be studied in relation to each other to gain a fuller understanding of what news consumption entails in this rapidly changing media landscape.KEYWORDS audience studies; cross-media; digitalization; everyday life; media repertoires; news use; Q methodology; value IntroductionThe current news media landscape is characterized by an abundance of information. Not only has digitalization resulted in a proliferation of available news sources, people now have more power to navigate the news content they want to use, when, where, and how. Therefore, news users increasingly choose their own trajectories across the media landscape and follow the news on multiple media platforms (Picone, Courtois, and Paulussen 2014). Previous studies have tried to map these changes in several ways. One possible avenue measures actual news use, employing quantitative measures such as Web metrics analyses to track news users' clicking behavior (e.g. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013) and surveys to map self-declared usage rates (e.g. Mitchell, Holcomb, and Page 2013;Newman, Levy, and Nielsen 2015;Yuan 2011). Such studies address questions about which news outlets are most frequently used or on what stories users spend the most time. A second strand of research considers shifting user preferences, typically employing qualitative methods including interviews and focus groups to uncover the importance of news in users' everyday lives (e.g. Van Cauwenberge, d'Haenens, and Beentjes 2013;Zerba 2011 Both lines of research then try to establish claims about what current news consumption looks like. However, by focusing on either patterns of perceived news media use or the perceived importance of platforms and outlets, one might not be able to grasp the complexity of news use. For instance, Chyi and Lee (2013) found that online newspaper users might actually prefer the print...

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“…News consumption is not a simple choice between traditional and new media: audiences actively combine different news sources into complex patterns of media use (Yuan, 2011). They may hereby compose a diet surpassing the dichotomy 'traditional versus new' news media, both on the level of technology (newspaper vs. tablet) and content (established news brands vs. new market players).…”

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What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

Damme

Courtois

Verbrugge

et al. 2015

Mobile Media & Communication

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News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires. The main purpose of this study is twofold: (a) gain insight in how mobile news outlets infiltrated the broader news media repertoires of mobile device owners and (b) understand in what circumstances mobile news is consumed within these news media repertoires. The key is to understand how and why this widening agency in appropriating various places and social spaces in everyday life relates to general news media consumption (Peters, 2012). This two-phased study aims to illuminate how mobile device owners position their mobile news consumption in relation to other types of news media outlets. First, a guiding cluster analysis of a large-scale questionnaire ( N = 1279) was performed, indicating three types of news consumers. Second, in order to thicken the originally derived clusters, a mixed-method study was set up, combining objective data originating from mobile device logs with more subjective audience constructions through personal diaries and face-to-face interviews ( N = 30). This study reveals the Janus-faced nature of mobile news. On the one hand, the majority of news consumers dominantly relies on traditional media outlets to stay informed, only to supplement with online mobile services in specific circumstances. Even then, there is at least a tendency to stick to trusted brand materials. On the other hand, these mobile news outlets/products do seem to increasingly infiltrate the daily lives of mobile audiences who were previously disengaged with news.

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News Consumption Across Multiple Media Platforms

Cited by 164 publications

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Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

Navigating cross-media news use

What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

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