Who’s Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Jacobs ◽  
Joost van Spanje
Keyword(s):  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Personal Experiences

scholarly journals Managing News Overload (MNO): The COVID-19 Infodemic

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Sameera Tahira Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Health ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources

A crucial area in which information overload is experienced is news consumption. Ever increasing sources and formats are becoming available through a combination of traditional and new (digital) media, including social media. In such an information and media rich environment, understanding how people access and manage news during a global health epidemic like COVID-19 becomes even more important. The designation of the current situation as an infodemic has raised concerns about the quality, accuracy and impact of information. Instances of misinformation are commonplace due, in part, to the speed and pervasive nature of social media and messaging applications in particular. This paper reports on data collected using media diaries from 15 university students in the United Arab Emirates documenting their news consumption in April 2020. Faced with a potentially infinite amount of information and news, participants demonstrate how they are managing news overload (MNO) using a number of complementary strategies. Results show that while consumption patterns vary, all diaries indicate that users’ ability to navigate the news landscape in a way that fulfils their needs is influenced by news sources; platform reliability and verification; sharing activity; and engagement with news.

scholarly journals Fragmentation, homogenisation or segmentation? A diary study into the diversity of news consumption in a high-choice media environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 026732312096684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno Slaets ◽  
Pascal Verhoest ◽  
Leen d’Haenens ◽  
Joeri Minnen ◽  
Ignace Glorieux
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Ideological Attitudes ◽  
Weak Influence

A weeklong diary study ( N = 460) into the exposure to news of Belgian (Flemish) adult media users (aged 25–45) shows that their information consumption is currently relatively diverse. An explanation for the observed diversity is that news consumers in Dutch-speaking Belgium have a wide array of internally balanced news titles and channels at their disposal, which they also actively consult. In addition, the study demonstrates that news consumption patterns span across all media platforms. This study thus illustrates that there is a weak influence of ideological attitudes and psychosocial dispositions on news consumption, measured in time of consumption per media title or channel. These findings call for a revision of theories of selective exposure that disregard the influence that the diversity of information supply can have on the selection procedures of recipients.

Mobile News Adoption among Young Adults

2013 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Olmsted ◽  
Hyejoon Rim ◽  
Amy Zerba
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Acceptance Model

Using the frameworks of innovation diffusion and technology acceptance model, this study examines the predictors of mobile news consumption among young adults. The results show that the perceived relative advantage (especially content), utility, and ease of use of mobile news are positively related to its adoption. The young adults’ news consumption patterns and preferences, as well as media usage, all play a role in the adoption of mobile news. This study also validates the importance of examining the adoption outcome from multiple perspectives.

scholarly journals Profiling news consumption on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-334
Author(s):  
Veronika Veronika ◽  
Agustinus Eko Raharjo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Uses And Gratification Theory ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The Media

Social media is an exciting platform to be researched at this time because users are increasing. This condition is a challenge for the media to be able to take advantage of this phenomenon into a great opportunity. The concept of social media journalism is growing as many media use social media with diverse objectives. A lot of studies have tried to see from a variety of spectacles. This research fills the research void related to the consumption of news through social media in Indonesia based on uses and gratification theory and social media concept. The survey conducted by distributing questionnaires online for two months to get 736 respondents from various regions in Indonesia. The result is that social media is not the main place for Indonesian people to look for news. Most of the respondent is still looking for news through two mediums, namely offline and other online. People who access news through social media are satisfied, but they do not have confidence in the news on social media. Besides understanding news consumption patterns on social media, this research suggests a model that the media needs to understand to utilize social media more effectively.

The Internet, News Consumption, and Political Attitudes – Evidence for Sweden

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1071-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che-Yuan Liang ◽  
Mattias Nordin
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Broadband Access ◽  
Additional Mass ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Internet News

Abstract We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which high-speed Internet (broadband) emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media consumption. The crowd out of offline consumption is, however, small. Furthermore, these altered news consumption patterns have no or small effects on political attitudes.

scholarly journals News consumption patterns in Iceland

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s2) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Online

Abstract News consumption has changed dramatically in the digital age, becoming increasingly complicated and fragmented. In this study, I analyse news consumption patterns in Iceland, drawing on data from a survey conducted in 2017, and compare it with news consumption in other Nordic countries. It is the first such study in Iceland in the digital age. The findings demonstrate that news are widely consumed by the general public, as in general in the Nordic region. Online sites are Icelanders’ most popular main source of news, followed by television and then social media. Legacy media are still most people's primary source of news, even if they are accessed on new platforms. Like in other Nordic countries, a small minority interacts with news online.

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