Media consumption across platforms: Identifying user-defined repertoires

Abstract

New media have made available a wide range of platforms and content choices. However, audiences cope with abundant choices by using more narrowly defined repertoires. Unfortunately, we know little of how users create repertoires across media platforms. This study uses factor analysis to identify user-defined repertoires from data obtained by following 495 users throughout an entire day. Results indicate the presence of four repertoires that are powerfully tied to the rhythms of people's daily lives. These were in turn explained by a combination of factors such as audience availability and individual demographics.

Disasters and Information Source Repertoires: Information Seeking and Information Sufficiency in Postearthquake Haiti

“…Recent articles have incorporated online and social media into examinations of repertoire composition (e.g., Taneja et al, 2012;. Instead of so-called new media replacing the old, research suggests that users will combine old and new sources into complex patterns of media use to meet gratifications (Yuan, 2011).…”

“…Scholars have also examined pattern repertoires, the groupings of media individuals use for particular purposes. Empirical approaches to the analysis of pattern repertoires have included exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis (e.g., Taneja, Webster, Malthouse, & Ksiazek, 2012;van Rees & van Eijck, 2003). Whatever the operationalization, repertoire research is fundamentally concerned with how users combine different mediums into patterns of exposure, and argues that types of users can be differentiated by the composition of their repertoires.…”

Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media

“…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].…”

Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research

“…Again, the media aspect is rigorously conceptualized on three levels: as the entire media environment, available at a given point in time, as the media ensemble which is the subset of media used in a particular social domain, and as the media repertoire appropriated by the individual across the relevant social domains of his/her everyday life. Communicative figurations thus provide a bridge between research that defines media repertoires according to social domains such as the workplace, the family, commuter transport and so on (Taneja et al 2012) and those who analyze the media repertoires of individuals (Helles et al 2015;Kobbernagel and Schrøder 2016). And-like media audiencesthey are inherently a cross-media phenomenon (Schrøder 2011).…”