Young citizens, values and new/s media

Spurgeon, Christina; Ferrier, Liz; Gunders, Lisa; Graham, Philip W.

doi:10.1080/10304312.2012.734598

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“…Preferring online information seeking with aims other than keeping up to date with daily news is seen to reflect the news habits of youth in general (e.g., Spurgeon et al, 2012). When discussing the positive features of ICT use with the supervisors, they mentioned accessing information for learning purposes.…”

Section: Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blended Lives

Granholm

2016

YOUNG

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This article presents a qualitative study of ICT use among Finnish young people attending training programmes for youth outside employment and education. The data come from six focus group interviews and three individual interviews, as well as a single focus group interview with involved supervisors. The data was analyzed using McQuail's (1983) theory regarding the motives for individual media use. The results show that the young people use ICT primarily for entertainment, but their use is diverse. Young people choose the tools and dimensions for interaction that best fulfill their needs, blending together ingredients from both online and offline sources. Unlike previous research, young people in this study stated that they prefer talking to someone face-to-face about severe (health-related or emotional) problems. If social and youth services want to meet young people on their own terms, both online and offline services are needed.

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Section: Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blended Lives

Granholm

2016

YOUNG

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“…Interviewers in Australia and America reported that young people also thought they were stereotyped as disengaged by politicians and, therefore, felt excluded from the political process (Edwards et al, 2005;Dalton and Crosby, 2008). This stereotypical viewpoint of an uninterested young adult tends to be one held by many, and it has been advocated that often the media contributes to this view (see commentary in Manning, 2012;Spurgeon et al, 2012;Wring et al, 1999), outlining how young adults have historically been portrayed as disinterested in politics. Jasperson and Jung Yun (2007) suggest that young voters in America conventionally do not participate to the same degree as older voters, as they are less engaged in the political process.…”

Section: Young Adult Votersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating young adult voter decision-making involvement within a compulsory political system

Winchester

Hall

Binney

2015

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

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Purpose -This study aims to specifically focus on the lower-involvement young adult voters within the Australian compulsory voting context. It explores voters' political decision-making by considering the influence of the consumer behaviour theory of involvement. Design/methodology/approach -A thematic analysis was conducted to analyse the interviews within the two research questions: information seeking and decision-making.Findings -Key themes within information seeking are the reach of the information available, the frequency of the information presented, the creativity of the message and one-way versus two-way communication. Key themes within evaluation are promise keeping/trust, achievements or performance and policies. Lower-involvement decision-making has the potential to be a habitual, limited evaluation decision. However, issues of trust, performance and policies may encourage evaluation, thereby reducing the chances of habitually voting for the same party as before. Practical implications -This new area of research has implications for the application of marketing for organisations and political marketing theory. Considering voting decision-making as a lower-involvement decision has implications for assisting the creation and adaptation of strategies to focus on this group of the population. Originality/value -The compulsory voting environment creates a unique situation to study lower-involvement decision-making, as these young adults are less likely to opt out of the voting process. Previous research in political marketing has not specifically explored the application of involvement to young adult voting within a compulsory voting environment.

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“…This seemingly contradictory search for explanation of, and familiarity with, violence and violent acts can be considered usefully as also one of many factors relating to a general public shift away from the 'legacy' news media format towards the 'layperson' copy-tasted news on crowd-sourcing sites. The popularity of crowd-sourcing news sites such as Reddit correlates with patterns of media engagement of not only contemporary youth culture but across all Australian age groups (Spurgeon et al 2012). According to Spurgeon et al (2012), it is iY Generation 2 who mostly do not read mainstream newspapers, or at least not in the same ways as did their parents and grandparents; a phenomenon with which Australian journalism education is currently engaging as media companies have also radically altered their business models accordingly.…”

Section: Asia Pacificmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The popularity of crowd-sourcing news sites such as Reddit correlates with patterns of media engagement of not only contemporary youth culture but across all Australian age groups (Spurgeon et al 2012). According to Spurgeon et al (2012), it is iY Generation 2 who mostly do not read mainstream newspapers, or at least not in the same ways as did their parents and grandparents; a phenomenon with which Australian journalism education is currently engaging as media companies have also radically altered their business models accordingly. Even so, journalism's central concern with the public interest continues to be a unifying factor across platforms and generations.…”

Section: Asia Pacificmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Little¹

2014

Asia Pacific Media Educator

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This article considers the role of animal rights-based journalism and its connection to teaching media law and ethics to undergraduate students in an Australian university arts faculty. An anecdotal discussion of a reflective practice informing the teaching of an undergraduate course in a journalism major relates questions of ethics and law to broader considerations of the role of advocacy in and around journalism, and media practice. It is argued that animal rights-related stories have a role in training media professionals, and also in inspiring journalists to envision their own work as part of the democratic mechanisms of social and legal reform in Australia.

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Young citizens, values and new/s media

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