Consumption

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-84
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Portable Device ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter traces the evolution of the mobile phone as a viable channel to disseminate news by news organizations and as a portable device to access and consume news for users in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei. It also explores the gap in regulations concerning mobile news in the four aforementioned Asian cities and documents the growing trend in consuming mobile news among the mobile phone-savvy college students. The chapter then identifies predictors of patterns in mobile news consumption. Significant differences in consumption exist across the four studied cities due to different levels of press freedom.

Perceptions

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Risky Business

Consuming mobile news can be risky business. How do Asian college students view the quality and credibility of news content they consume via the mobile phone? This chapter assesses their perceptions of the credibility of news created and delivered to the mobile screen in the four selected Asian cities. Findings indicate an ambivalence toward mobile news held by college students in Asia, especially those in Shanghai and Singapore—mobile news is reliable but lacks diversity in perspectives (e.g., alternative to the official stance or government point of view). Comparative analyses further reveal that Shanghai and Singapore respondents rated mobile news credibility more highly than did their counterparts in Hong Kong and especially in Taipei, where evaluation of mobile news credibility was the lowest. Perceptions of mobile news credibility also vary by gender, level of consuming mobile news, reliance on traditional media as news sources, perceived utility of mobile news, and appeal of presentation.

Motivations

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-59
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Media Choice ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Asian College Students

News consumption requires motivation. This chapter aims to understand user needs and expectancies as motivational factors behind the consumption of mobile news. The three identified motivations of mobile phone use—sociability, entertainment, and surveillance—reveal the underlying reasoning of Asian college students about the mobile phone as an all-in-one media choice that is essential to socialize, entertain, and stay informed. Moreover, surveillance as a civic motivation is positively related to expectancies of mobile news as being interactive and personally valuable. These motivations sought from mobile phone use and usability attributes of mobile news, both civic and practical, manifest the desire of Asian college students to access news on their phones for intentional and active consumption.

Mobile Phones: News Consumption, News Creation, and News Organization Accommodations

2015 ◽  
pp. 280-286
Author(s):  
Kristine Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Organization ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

Advances in mobile phone technologies have changed the way news is consumed and created. Accordingly, this relates to three specific areas: 1.) people turn to their phones to consume news content, 2.) people use their phones to create news content, and 3.) news organizations are making accommodations based on these changes. In particular, research indicates an increase in the number of people who use their phones to access the news. In addition, given the availability of faster connections and phone-based multimedia capabilities, individuals now play a role in the creation news content. News organizations are taking notice and have adopted ways in which to utilize mobile phone capabilities, both in terms of the distribution and creation of news content. Suggested future research involves examining consumer use of more than one digital device at a time.

Conclusions

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
New Type

This chapter draws conclusions based on empirical evidence concerning the why, how, and effects of mobile news consumption. A new type of news consumer emerges—one who prefers to seek news over the phone rather than the PC, who tends to engage with the news, and who learns something about currents affairs from it. The increased consumption of news via the mobile phone reveals a process in which Asia’s civically motivated young generations seek to be informed. Our findings offer insights into the debate over technological determinism in that technological innovations matter in early stages of a technology’s diffusion. However, as the technology matures and its use becomes routinized, it is increasingly subject to societal constraints and impositions of political power. Consumption of mobile news among college students in the four studied Asian cities represents an illuminating case of social shaping of technology.

Predicting mobile news use among college students: The role of press freedom in four Asian cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo ◽  
Xiaoge Xu ◽  
Yi-Ning Katherine Chen ◽  
Guoliang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
News Use

‘I stopped reading newspapers because of the internet!’: News consumption behaviour of youth in Greece and Turkey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eylem Yanardağoğlu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Internet News ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
General Decline ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Tuning Out

Digitalization of news organizations and other traditional media presents an ongoing struggle. Although there is a general decline in news consumption in all ages, youth in particular seems to be ‘tuning out’ of news globally. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report published in 2016 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, announced that news accessed via social media sites increased in Europe (average 46 per cent) where Greece and Turkey were high adoption countries with 74 and 73 per cent usage rates, respectively. These numbers dropped in the 2018 report to 66 per cent in Turkey and 71 per cent in Greece. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in Greece and Turkey through an interpretative approach. Data collection was done in 2017 in Athens and Istanbul with voluntary participation of 40 college students who study in public and private universities.

News in their Pockets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Media Systems

This book explores the societal, technological, and user-related factors in understanding why and how digitally savvy college students in Asia’s most mobile cities—Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—seek news via the mobile phone, how they evaluate mobile news for credibility and usefulness, and the consequences of this practice: becoming engaged with mobile news, which then teaches them about current affairs. The analyses are situated at the intersection of technological advances from 3G to 4G and marked differences in political and media systems across the four cities, which jointly shape Asia’s new generations of citizens. Technologically, the deeply diffused mobile phone motivates civic-minded millennials and centennials in Asia to access news with their phones and engage with the news for civic learning. However, sociopolitical factors impede potential positive outcomes of mobile news consumption. Cross-societal comparisons of survey data collected from two time periods reveal new insights into the interplay of technology and society in consuming mobile news.

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