News Usage Patterns Of Young Adults In The Era Of Interactive Journalism

Media Studies, Audiovisual Media Communications, and Generations: The Case of Budding Journalists in Radio Courses in Greece

“…Finally, (c) they can be used in any course of media studies, because they kept the interest and attention of the budding journalists (see also Matsiola et al 2019), as in various and relevant research (see Nicolaou 2020;Nicolaou and Kalliris 2020;Nicolaou and Kalliris 2021). In summary, we should mention that these specific audiovisual media communications may be more easily adopted by budding journalists as innovative educational tools, because they can recognize and understand the relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, and reliability of them, and thus get more comfortable in adopting new ideas (see Podara et al 2020;Matsiola et al 2019;Podara et al 2019a;Podara et al 2019b;Podara et al 2019c;Podara et al 2018;Paschalidis and Milioni 2010), something which is confirmed through the diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory, which states that the success of any new form of communication depends on how easily it fits into people's lives (Rogers [1962(Rogers [ ] 2003).…”

“…Nowadays, the Internet as ICTs is the culmination of the field of communication as a body of information (Kholdarvovna 2021;Chen and Zhang 2009), with access to comprehensive multimedia communication (Nicolaou 2011b, p. 43) to the people as active online users from and through the Internet with multimodal content (i.e., text, images/photograph, sound/audio media in the form of sound recordings, certain sounds, music/songs, sound effects (sfx), etc., as well as in the combined format with video), such as the media websites that add a cumulative value through the contributions of users (Antonopoulos et al 2015, p. 48), which may even influence public opinion (Antonopoulos and Veglis 2013;Spyridou et al 2013). This phenomenon occurs primarily in the younger generations' users (see Ryberg et al 2011), such as GenZ (see Seemiller and Grace 2018;Twenge 2017) and Millennials (see Howe and William 2000;Howe and Nadler 2008), who tend to use the Internet and ICTs more and more in every aspect of their daily lives (see Podara et al 2021b;Nicolaou and Kalliris 2020;Podara et al 2020;Matsiola et al 2019;Podara et al 2018Podara et al , 2019aPodara et al , 2019bPodara et al , 2019c as digital natives (Prensky 2001a;Prensky 2001b). On the other hand, today we also have GenX (see Neil Howe [1991] 1992;Markert 2004), the Baby Boomer Generation (people born from 1946 to 1964) (see Owram 1996;Jones 2008), and the Silent Generation (people born from 1925 to 1945) (see Strauss and Howe 1997;Carlson 2008), who are unfamiliar with the use of technology and especially with new technologies (e.g., with smart devices) as digital immigrants (Prensky 2001a(Prensky , 2001b.…”

“…In summary, new media in recent years have begun to decisively influence the values, expectations, and interests of the population, especially among the younger generations (i.e., GenZ and Millennials) as digital natives who create new trends, attitudes, and stereotypes, as well as new forms of TV viewing and usage patterns as a sphere of entertainment, mainly through digital and mobile media (as smart device) for the digital media production practices which are now ubiquitous (see Hashem et al 2017;Podara et al 2018Podara et al , 2019aPodara et al , 2019bD'yakova and Sechkareva 2019;Michalovich 2021;Podara et al 2021b). This situation leads us to the conclusion that new journalists need to acquire, more than ever before, necessary and specific and/or combination multiple-multimodal skills through the curriculum.…”

“…In conclusion, based on the relevant literature review and corresponding findings of previous studies and research on the generations and generational cohorts in relation to the media (see, for example, Podara et al 2020Podara et al , 2019aPodara et al , 2019bPodara et al , 2019c and the use of audiovisual media communications in education (see, for example, Nicolaou and Kalliris 2020), and especially in the field of media studies (see, for example, Matsiola et al 2019), we assume that most generations' members have exactly the same genealogical characteristics and habits (e.g., media use) as highlighted in basic generational theory (e.g., Neil Howe [1991] 1992;Tapscott 2009Tapscott , 1998. At this point, we should mention that beyond the broadly known generations and generational cohorts, there are also other generations, such as cusp generations (i.e., crossbreed generations or cross-over generations) (see Codrington andGrant-Marshall [2004] 2013;Smit 2017).…”

Generation Z’s screen culture: Understanding younger users’ behaviour in the television streaming age – The case of post-crisis Greece

“…Regarding the devices used to access content on a subscription-based TV platform, the findings reveal a mobile-centric approach, a typical characteristic of Gen Z viewers (Ericsson Consumer Lab, 2017;Nielsen, 2019;Podara et al, 2019a). The question employed a 5-point Likert scale (never to every day).…”