Factoring media use into media system theory—An examination of 14 European nations (2002–2010)

Abstract

This study incorporates media use pattern into examining three distinct media systems proposed by Hallin and Mancini. The uses of newspapers, radio, television, and Internet in European Social Surveys were included. North-Central European nations, particularly the Nordic countries, demonstrate more widespread media use than other European nations. Media-use Gini indexes support Hallin and Mancini’s original demarcation. Cluster analysis, however, indicates that the European nations of the three groups slightly differ from the original typology.

EU cultural policy and audience perspectives: how cultural value orientations are related to media usage and country context

“…Also, media system theory has outlined how countries differ significantly in the extent to which newspapers reach a broad range of the public or mainly selected niche-or elite audiences. Comparative research has shown that levels of news consumption in general, and newspaper reading in particular, are higher in the Nordic and democratic-corporatist media systems than in the liberal and polarized-plural model (Melián and Wu 2017). Our second hypothesis reads:…”

News consumption patterns in Iceland

“…Technological affordances can enable or constrain certain kinds of media use, but usage is likewise enabled or constrained by the institutional structure of the media system in which the media practices take place (Hallin & Mancini, 2004;Hölig et al, 2016;Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško et al, 2015). Scholars have stressed a need for an updated understanding of media systems in relation to digital media practices and argued that an analysis of media systems must incorporate both access and usage (Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško, 2017).…”

“…Technological affordances can enable or constrain certain kinds of media use, but usage is likewise enabled or constrained by the institutional structure of the media system in which the media practices take place (Hallin & Mancini, 2004;Hölig et al, 2016;Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško et al, 2015). Scholars have stressed a need for an updated understanding of media systems in relation to digital media practices and argued that an analysis of media systems must incorporate both access and usage (Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško, 2017). Several researchers have built upon and expanded Hallin and Mancini's (2004) study of media systems in Western Europe and North America with regards to news consumption (e.g., Hölig et al, 2016;Meilán & Wu, 2017;Nielsen & Schrøder, 2014;Peruško et al, 2015).…”

“…Scholars have stressed a need for an updated understanding of media systems in relation to digital media practices and argued that an analysis of media systems must incorporate both access and usage (Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško, 2017). Several researchers have built upon and expanded Hallin and Mancini's (2004) study of media systems in Western Europe and North America with regards to news consumption (e.g., Hölig et al, 2016;Meilán & Wu, 2017;Nielsen & Schrøder, 2014;Peruško et al, 2015). Hallin and Mancini's study did demonstrate large differences in newspaper readership in the three media systems they identified, with an unequal consumption of public information in the polarised pluralist countries, whereas democratic corporatist countries had a culture of a more equal and "heavy consumption of information about public affairs" (Hallin & Mancini, 2004: 298).…”

“…Research has long demonstrated that people's news use and practice differ according to demographic factors like age, sex, education, and income, and that seems to still be the case in the new media landscape (e.g., Bakker & de Vreese, 2011;Blekesaune et al, 2012;Boulianne, 2015;Dimitrova et al, 2014;Holt et al, 2013;Newman et al, 2017). Recently, growing attention has been paid to possible relations between media systems and media use, and research indicates that the structural and institutional context in which media and news are consumed -as well as individual factors and technological affordances -affects people's media use and practices (Adoni et al, 2017;Hallin & Mancini, 2004;Helles et al, 2015;Horowitz & Napoli, 2014;Hölig et al, 2016;Meilán & Wu, 2017;Peruško, 2017).…”