News-seekers and Avoiders: Exploring Patterns of Total News Consumption Across Media and the Relationship to Civic Participation

Ksiazek, Thomas B.; Malthouse, Edward C.; Webster, James G.

doi:10.1080/08838151.2010.519808

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“…One Swedish study, for example, shows both that news consumption has become more polarized between news-seekers and news-avoiders since the 1980s and that political interest has become a more important determinant of news consumption ; see also Bonfadelli, 2002;Ksiazek et al, 2010). Other studies confirm that political interest and informational TV use have increased their importance in widening the knowledge gap (Hopmann, Wonneberger, Shehata, & Jonas, 2016).…”

Section: Concern 6: Towards Increasing Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…As a consequence, several studies have found growing gaps between heavy users and low/nonusers which are attributable largely to different sets of motivations and gratifications sought by people Ksiazek, Malthouse, & Webster, 2010;Strömbäck et al, 2013). It is also likely the case that differences in the demand for political news would vary even more than differences in demand for news in general.…”

Section: Concern 1: Declining Amount Of Political Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The core of the concern is that increasing media choice will lead to increasing inequalities in the extent to which people make use of the news media, and that this will result in increasing inequalities in knowledge about politics and current affairs among different groups in society Blekesaune et al, 2012;Eveland & Scheufele, 2000;Gaziano, 2010;Hwang & Jeong, 2009;Ksiazek et al, 2010;Strömbäck et al, 2013;Wei & Hindman, 2011). Thus, the concern is rooted in how changes in the supply of news and other political information influence the demand and, subsequently, learning about politics and current affairs.…”

Section: Concern 6: Towards Increasing Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Cuanto mayor es la oferta orientada al ocio, mayor es la probabilidad de que el público renuncie a consumir noticias y programas informativos (Ksiazek et al, 2010). En Es tados Unidos, por ejemplo, el nuevo escenario se ha traducido en una pérdida masiva de audiencia por parte de las grandes cadenas de televisión establecidas.…”

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Exposición fragmentada a la información periodística, polarización política y democracia representativa. El caso de los diputados del Parlamento catalán y su uso de los medios informativos

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ResumenEn no pocos países se viene discutiendo acerca del peligro democrático que supone una fragmentación del uso de los medios periodísticos. Al estudiar ese fenómeno, la academia ha centrado su atención en los ciudadanos, en detrimento de aquellos sujetos que, por pertenecer a la clase política, tienen una mayor capacidad de decisión e influencia. Gracias a una encuesta realizada a diputados del parlamento catalán hemos podido comprobar que entre ellos también se dan procesos de fragmentación informativa, debi dos sobre todo a una evitación de información periodística y a una selección de medios guiada ideoló gicamente. Concluimos que, de manera análoga a como sucede con la población, la fragmentación del uso de los medios informativos puede llevar a una polarización de las élites políticas y, por tanto, a un deterioro del funcionamiento del sistema democrático representativo. Palabras clave: democracia, polarización, fragmentación, medios de información, periodismo político, esfera pública Fragmentation, polarization and democracy. The Catalan Parliament deputies and their news media use Abstract In many countries scholars have discussed about the danger for the democracy posed by the fragmenta tion of the use of news media. In their study of this phenomenon, they have focused their attention on the citizens, to the detriment of the members of the political class. Thanks to a survey of members of the Catalan Parliament we have seen that politicians also have a tendency to fragmentation, mainly due to an avoidance of information and ideologically driven media selection. Our research concludes that, as in the case of the population, fragmentation of media use can lead to polarization of political elites and therefore to a deterioration of the representative democratic system.

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“…Prior 2007, Ksiazek et al 2010. Coupled with a dramatic downturn in the funding of traditional journalistic institutions, especially those based in print news (Nielsen & Kuhn, 2014), the result has been seen as a crisis in trust in journalism.…”

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Boundary Struggles: Contestations of free speech in the Norwegian public sphere

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News-seekers and Avoiders: Exploring Patterns of Total News Consumption Across Media and the Relationship to Civic Participation

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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Exposición fragmentada a la información periodística, polarización política y democracia representativa. El caso de los diputados del Parlamento catalán y su uso de los medios informativos

Boundary Struggles: Contestations of free speech in the Norwegian public sphere

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