Journalism, Audiences, and News Experience

Meijer, Irene Costera

doi:10.4324/9781315167497-25

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“…Prior's key concept, the relative preference of entertainment over news, tells us little about why some individuals have little comparative interest in consuming news, nor does it reflect how shifts in the modern media environment might play a role in this process. Moreover, it is important for contemporary studies of news consumption to account for different ways of consuming news, which are not limited to newspaper and television news (Costera Meijer, 2019). This study defines news as information about current events, which can be consumed by audiences in a variety of media spaces, that facilitates civic and political engagement.…”

Section: The High-choice Media Environmentmentioning

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The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption

Edgerly

2021

Journalism

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In today’s media environment, there are increased opportunities to consume news in various formats and styles. Why then, do some people say they consume little to no news? The focus of this study is to identify the factors related to extremely low levels of news consumption. Survey data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults is used to test different explanations for news avoidance. Results point to several factors that explain lower overall levels of news consumption. Extremely low news consumption is related to a disinterest in politics, perceptions of news lacking relevance, low news self-efficacy and a lack of knowledge about the news system. Perhaps surprisingly, the emotional toll of news (e.g. news fatigue, upset feelings) did not explain variation in overall levels of news consumption. Based on these findings, efforts to convert news avoiders into more regular consumers of news is discussed.

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Section: The High-choice Media Environmentmentioning

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The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption

Edgerly

2021

Journalism

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“…Digitalization and the rise of social media have changed the way people access news (Chyi and Chadha 2012;Antunovic et al 2018;Lewis and Molyneux 2018;Costera Meijer 2019). Online news usage is replacing news consumption via newspapers, TV, or radio, especially among young adults (Edgerly, Vraga, et al 2018b).…”

Section: Young People's News Access In Digitalized Media Environmentsmentioning

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Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News

Schwaiger

Vogler

Eisenegger

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Online media environments have changed the way young people access news. Despite much research on the topic, the expectations of journalistic news by young adults who have turned their back on traditional news media remain unclear. We use a novel multimethod qualitative online study design to investigate the perceived quality, functions, and expectations toward journalistic news of young adults in Switzerland who use social media as their main source for news and rarely consume traditional media. Nineteen young adults between 20 and 25 years of age with different educational levels participated in our study in May 2020. Our results show that even though the participants only occasionally use traditional news media channels, they still consider journalistic news relevant and appreciate quality standards of professional journalism such as actuality and veracity (Swart 2021b). Among the functions of news, the participants highlighted sociability and identification. Exchange and discussion of news are, thus, of high relevance online but also offline. Also, the participants show a high affinity toward news on mobilizing topics, which are of interest to themselves and their peers, and motivate them to engage with news more intensely. According to the participants, news should be attractively prepared, such as with audiovisual formats and easy to understand and integrate into everyday life. The participants also expressed a preference to consume news articles from different media brands within a single platform. Our study outlines a fruitful path for comprehensive qualitative research with innovative online tools.

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“…As a starting point, consider at least three objects of analysis. It's not that these questions are entirely new (e.g., see Costera Meijer 2019;Nielsen 2016Nielsen , 2020Pickard 2017;; rather, it's that the pandemic and its aftershocks will amplify the urgency of addressing these weaknesses in our field.…”

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The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond

Lewis

2020

Digital Journalism

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The most immediate and important effects of the coronavirus pandemic concern public health. But the crisis also raises a number of key questions for journalism research. As scholars, we should pause, when so much of our working lives seems thrown out of routine, and critically consider what has brought us, individually and collectively, to this juncture in our research and where we aim to go in the future. I suggest two areas of journalism research that are worth pondering during this period: our objects (what we study) and our objectives (why we study). By honestly acknowledging our shortcomings-for example, in giving overweight attention to certain objects of analysis at the expense of others, or in failing to develop a stronger public voice as part of our scholarly objectives-we can reorient our research agendas to be simultaneously responsive and reflective as we address the current crisis and prepare for the uncertainties ahead. We might take the present situation not simply as an opportune moment to pivot to Covid-19 research and collect real-time data about news and journalism in transition, but also as an invitation to rethink our research enterprise in a much larger and longerlasting sense.

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Journalism, Audiences, and News Experience

Cited by 23 publications

References 76 publications

The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption

The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption

Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News

The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond

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