Young adults and everyday-life information: The role of news media

News has traditionally served as a common ground, enabling people to connect to others and engage with the public issues they encounter in everyday life. This article revisits these theoretical debates about mediated public connection within the context of a digitalized news media landscape. While academic discussions surrounding these shifts are often explored in terms of normative ideals ascribed to political systems or civic cultures, we propose to reposition the debate by departing from the practices and preferences of the news user instead. Therefore, we deconstruct and translate the concept of public connection into four dimensions that emphasize people’s lived experiences: inclusiveness, engagement, relevance, and constructiveness. Situating these in an everyday life framework, this article advances a user-based perspective that considers the role of news for people in digital societies. Accordingly, it offers a conceptual framework that aims to encapsulate how news becomes meaningful, rather than why it should be.

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Who am I God? The Role of Belief in God in the Identity Development of Young Adults

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e561972014-001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Angela M. Desilva Mousseau

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Identity Development ◽

Belief In God

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The role of gossip in everyday life

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633872013-129 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Hom ◽

Jonathan Haidt

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life

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The role of gossip in everyday life

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633872013-712 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Hom ◽

Jonathan Haidt

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life

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Particularities of tinnitus in children and adolescents

ORL ro ◽

10.26416/orl.33.4.2016.165 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 40-42

Author(s):

Alexandra Boloș ◽

Sebastian Cozma ◽

Andreea Silvana Szalontay

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Young Adults ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

Ambient Noise ◽

Psychological Consequences ◽

Therapeutic Approaches

Tinnitus is a common otologic symptom and probably the most troublesome. Tinnitus causes a number of physical and psychological consequences, that interfere with the quality of life of the patient. Many authors believe that the presence of tinnitus in children is a matter of lesser importance than in adults because it is met less frequently and would be a fleeting symptom, inoffensive for them (Graham, 1981). In addition, the prevalence of tinnitus during adolescence and even in young adults is increasing, possibly as a consequence of the increased ambient noise (Bulbul SF, Shargorodsky J). Various therapeutic approaches have generated different results, which led us to consider the role of psychological factors, hence the need to underline the particularities of this symptom in childhood.

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Rediscussing the Role of Traditional Risk Factors in Young Adults With Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Anticancer Research ◽

10.21873/anticanres.14723 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (12) ◽

pp. 6987-6995

Author(s):

NORBERT NECKEL ◽

MARCO MICHAEL ◽

DANIEL TROELTZSCH ◽

JONAS WÜSTER ◽

STEFFEN KOERDT ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Squamous Cell Carcinoma ◽

Young Adults ◽

Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma ◽

Cell Carcinoma ◽

Squamous Cell ◽

Traditional Risk Factors

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Agenda-Setting Dynamics during the Campaign Period

10.1093/oso/9780198792130.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Partheymüller

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Information Environment ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Media Content ◽

Agenda Setter ◽

Memory Decay ◽

The Media

It is widely believed that the news media have a strong influence on defining what are the most important problems facing the country during election campaigns. Yet, recent research has pointed to several factors that may limit the mass media’s agenda-setting power. Linking news media content to rolling cross-section survey data, the chapter examines the role of three such limiting factors in the context of the 2009 and the 2013 German federal elections: (1) rapid memory decay on the part of voters, (2) advertising by the political parties, and (3) the fragmentation of the media landscape. The results show that the mass media may serve as a powerful agenda setter, but also demonstrate that the media’s influence is strictly limited by voters’ cognitive capacities and the structure of the campaign information environment.

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Musical shape and feeling

10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0028 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Recent Work ◽

Sensory Perception ◽

Dynamic Processes ◽

Sensorimotor System ◽

Musical Sound ◽

Sensory Mode ◽

Daniel Stern

The concept of shape is widely used by musicians in talking and thinking about performance, yet the mechanisms that afford links between music and shape are little understood. Work on the psychodynamics of everyday life by Daniel Stern and on embodiment by Mark Johnson suggests relationships between the multiple dynamics of musical sound and the dynamics of feeling and motion. Recent work on multisensory and precognitive sensory perception and on the role of bimodal neurons in the sensorimotor system helps to explain how shape, as a percept representing changing quantity in any sensory mode, may be invoked by dynamic processes at many stages of perception and cognition. These processes enable ‘shape’ to do flexible and useful work for musicians needing to describe the quality of musical phenomena that are fundamental to everyday musical practice and yet too complex to calculate during performance.

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