News Media Old and New

Schrøder, Kim Christian

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2014.890332

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“…Dominique (24), for example, used Facebook to not miss out on "things people talk about at parties" and Elise (32) did not use Twitter, because none of her friends did. Surprisingly, while Schrøder (2015) found that a news medium's participatory potential increased frequency of news use, participants in our interviews showed no desire to participate in the news-making process: although the issues in the news should be linked to their everyday lives, many news users seem rather to consume the news than to contribute to it. Similarly, contrary to studies by Purcell et al (2010) and Hermida et al (2012), describing options to personalize news homepages and share news through social media as frequently used features, such technological affordances only appealed to a minority of the participants in our study.…”

Section: News Media Use Is Not Equal To News Media Appreciationmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…The act of consuming news helps to structure and provide meaning within the flow of everyday life, and the rise of digital technologies creates new communicative spaces and patterns of engagement (Peters 2015). Schrøder's (2015) notion of "perceived worthwhileness" attempts to capture the complex interrelationship of these factors underlying news media repertoires, focusing on time spent, situational fit, normative pressures, public connection possibilities, price, participatory potential, and technological appeal. In this article, we use a similarly broad conceptualization to investigate what makes news media valuable within individuals' repertoires and what role these configurations play in their daily lives.…”

Section: Studying News Usementioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating cross-media news use

2016

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The current news media landscape is characterized by an abundance of digital outlets and increased opportunities for users to navigate news themselves. Yet, it is still unclear how people negotiate this fluctuating environment to decide which news media to select or ignore, how they assemble distinctive cross-media repertoires, and what makes these compositions meaningful. This article analyzes the value of different platforms, genres, and practices in everyday life by mapping patterns of cross-media news use. Combining Q methodology with think-aloud protocols and day-in-the-life-interviews, five distinct news media repertoires are identified: (1) regionally oriented, (2) background oriented, (3) digital, (4) laid-back, and (5) nationally oriented news use. Our findings indicate that users do not always use what they prefer, nor do they prefer what they use. Moreover, the boundaries they draw between news and other information are clearly shifting. Finally, our results show that in a world with a wide range of possibilities to consume news for free, paying for news can be considered an act of civic engagement. We argue that perceived news use and users' appreciation of news should be studied in relation to each other to gain a fuller understanding of what news consumption entails in this rapidly changing media landscape.KEYWORDS audience studies; cross-media; digitalization; everyday life; media repertoires; news use; Q methodology; value IntroductionThe current news media landscape is characterized by an abundance of information. Not only has digitalization resulted in a proliferation of available news sources, people now have more power to navigate the news content they want to use, when, where, and how. Therefore, news users increasingly choose their own trajectories across the media landscape and follow the news on multiple media platforms (Picone, Courtois, and Paulussen 2014). Previous studies have tried to map these changes in several ways. One possible avenue measures actual news use, employing quantitative measures such as Web metrics analyses to track news users' clicking behavior (e.g. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013) and surveys to map self-declared usage rates (e.g. Mitchell, Holcomb, and Page 2013;Newman, Levy, and Nielsen 2015;Yuan 2011). Such studies address questions about which news outlets are most frequently used or on what stories users spend the most time. A second strand of research considers shifting user preferences, typically employing qualitative methods including interviews and focus groups to uncover the importance of news in users' everyday lives (e.g. Van Cauwenberge, d'Haenens, and Beentjes 2013;Zerba 2011 Both lines of research then try to establish claims about what current news consumption looks like. However, by focusing on either patterns of perceived news media use or the perceived importance of platforms and outlets, one might not be able to grasp the complexity of news use. For instance, Chyi and Lee (2013) found that online newspaper users might actually prefer the print...

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Section: News Media Use Is Not Equal To News Media Appreciationmentioning

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Section: Studying News Usementioning

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“…News audiences are thus seeking access, navigating in and making sense of the multitude of news messages across print, broadcasting, online and mobile media platforms (Schrøder, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

Damme

Courtois

Verbrugge

et al. 2015

Mobile Media & Communication

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News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires. The main purpose of this study is twofold: (a) gain insight in how mobile news outlets infiltrated the broader news media repertoires of mobile device owners and (b) understand in what circumstances mobile news is consumed within these news media repertoires. The key is to understand how and why this widening agency in appropriating various places and social spaces in everyday life relates to general news media consumption (Peters, 2012). This two-phased study aims to illuminate how mobile device owners position their mobile news consumption in relation to other types of news media outlets. First, a guiding cluster analysis of a large-scale questionnaire ( N = 1279) was performed, indicating three types of news consumers. Second, in order to thicken the originally derived clusters, a mixed-method study was set up, combining objective data originating from mobile device logs with more subjective audience constructions through personal diaries and face-to-face interviews ( N = 30). This study reveals the Janus-faced nature of mobile news. On the one hand, the majority of news consumers dominantly relies on traditional media outlets to stay informed, only to supplement with online mobile services in specific circumstances. Even then, there is at least a tendency to stick to trusted brand materials. On the other hand, these mobile news outlets/products do seem to increasingly infiltrate the daily lives of mobile audiences who were previously disengaged with news.

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“…De acordo com Couldry et al (2007Couldry et al ( , 2008, a conexão pú-blica mediada pode ser definida como o conteúdo noticioso ou a prática de consumo de media que contém uma orientação para assuntos de interesse coletivo ou partilhado. Kim Schrøder (2015bSchrøder ( , 2015c alargou este mesmo conceito para incluir qualquer conteúdo noticioso que contribua para manter relações entre as redes interpessoais e a sociedade de uma forma geral, fazendo por isso a distinção entre "valor democrático percebido" (que remete para o cidadão e a sua identidade enquanto tal) e entre "valor quotidiano percebido" (que remete para as redes de relação interpessoais do passado e do presente).…”

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Audiências e cross-media: estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal

Silva¹,

Figueiras²,

Brites³

et al. 2017

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ResumoAs práticas digitais que decorrem da ubiquidade dos media e da sua utilização possibilitaram a combinação de múltiplas plataformas no consumo de notí-cias. Neste artigo, procurámos identificar repertó-rios mediáticos (padrões de uso dos media noticiosos) em Portugal, de modo a compreender como são construídas as preferências mediáticas das audiên-cias e de que forma o consumo noticioso integra os seus hábitos quotidianos. Neste sentido, desenvolvemos uma análise a padrões de consumo de media noticiosos a partir de uma abordagem mista de mé-todos qualitativos e quantitativos baseada na Metodologia Q (Davis & Michelle, 2011), a partir de uma amostra constituída por 36 participantes. A análise dos padrões de consumo de notícias permitiu identificar e analisar sete repertórios mediáticos em função do uso, relevância e utilidade atribuída pelos sujeitos aos media noticiosos. Os resultados revelam perfis híbridos de consumo mediático e uma tendên-cia para consumos de notícias numa lógica móvel e multiplataforma, embora os media tradicionais continuem a desempenhar um papel determinante nos repertórios mediáticos em Portugal.Palavras-chave: audiências; consumos noticiosos; repertórios mediáticos; Cross-Media; metodologia Q.

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News Media Old and New

Cited by 121 publications

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Navigating cross-media news use

What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

Audiências e cross-media: estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal

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