News Consumption and the New Electronic Media

Ahlers, Douglas

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“…The majority of citizens still lean on traditional media as their primary news source and use online news formats as complementary (see Ahlers, 2006;Tewksbury, 2006). Yet, the migration from traditional to online sources is expected to increase over time.…”

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Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources

Yang

Grabe

2011

New Media & Society

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This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition between South Korean citizens ( N = 123) from different educational backgrounds. Moreover, the high education group comprehended news with the same level of efficiency across online and newspaper formats while low education participants gained more knowledge from reading a newspaper than using an online news source. Taken together, this study’s findings confirm the knowledge gap hypothesis through experimental research and offer evidence of its potential contribution to the digital divide.

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Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources

Yang

Grabe

2011

New Media & Society

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“…These choices are frequently linked to important background characteristics, such as education or employment, either directly or indirectly through the impact of the background characteristics on interest in or involvement with a particular topic (35,36). We also know that both individual and societal patterns of media use change over time, such as in the decline of traditional print newspapers (37) and network television news (38) and the growth of online news and partisan cable news outlets (39). Therefore, we must first understand how people selectively use certain media (particularly, news media) before we can understand the nature of media influence on beliefs.…”

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An integrated model of communication influence on beliefs

Eveland

Cooper

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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How do people develop and maintain their beliefs about science? Decades of social science research exist to help us answer this question. The Integrated Model of Communication Influence on Beliefs presented here combines multiple theories that have considered aspects of this process into a comprehensive model to explain how individuals arrive at their scientific beliefs. In this article, we (i) summarize what is known about how science is presented in various news and entertainment media forms; (ii) describe how individuals differ in their choices to be exposed to various forms and sources of communication; (iii) discuss the implications of how individuals mentally process information on the effects of communication; (iv) consider how communication effects can be altered depending on background characteristics and motivations of individuals; and (v) emphasize that the process of belief formation is not unidirectional but rather, feeds back on itself over time. We conclude by applying the Integrated Model of Communication Influence on Beliefs to the complex issue of beliefs about climate change.knowledge | learning D ecades of scholarship in communication and related fields have examined the role of mass and interpersonal communication as means by which members of the public acquire information or beliefs about a variety of important topics (1, 2). However, there are several properties of this literature that make it less than ideal for succinctly answering the larger question of how scientific beliefs are formed. First, there is a tendency to focus research on a particular form of communication in isolation from others (e.g., news rather than entertainment or media rather than interpersonal discussion), with an emphasis on media effects. Second, most empirical models offer snapshots of associations among variables (3, 4) rather than consideration of how feedback processes connect communication and beliefs in both causal directions. Third, the models tested often seem to have been developed on the basis of the data available in a particular study rather than on a broader consideration of the theoretical processes involved. In those cases in which the models do seem more comprehensive, they usually eschew formal prediction in favor of offering more abstract frameworks and encouraging data exploration (5). Overall, although there is a wealth of insight and evidence relating communication and beliefs, it tends to be scattered because of emphasis on particular subprocesses rather than emphasis on the whole.Sociologist Robert Merton [ref. 6, pp. 52-53 (emphasis in original)] argued that "theories of the middle range hold the largest promise, provided that the search for them is coupled with a pervasive concern with consolidating special theories into more general sets of concepts and mutually consistent propositions" (6). The current body of research on media selection and impact on beliefs, which has, to date, been relatively circumscribed by focusing attention on subprocesses, would seem to be ripe for a comprehens...

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“…81 To see the recent changes as a moment for reinvention and organizational learning looking beyond the industry, rather than as an existential threat, would help them evolve, innovate, and learn rather than face extinction. 82 To take a final analogy from before the last Ice Age, legacy news dinosaurs cannot expect to compete by growing feathers and tweeting.…”

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Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Duffy¹,

Ling²,

Westlund³

2017

Media Industries Journal

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Abstract:First cut from frozen lakes and later manufactured on an industrial scale, ice was, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, big business. This article uses the collapse of the ice manufacturing and distribution business in the early twentieth century as a lens through which to view the current situation among the newspaper industries of Western countries, particularly North America and Europe. Each industry involves the production and distribution of a commodity and a legacy technology that is superseded. The analogy is imperfect, but the alignments and the imperfections of

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News Consumption and the New Electronic Media

Cited by 145 publications

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Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources

Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources

An integrated model of communication influence on beliefs

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

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