scholarly journals The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482198997
Author(s):  
Frank Mangold ◽  
Sebastian Stier ◽  
Johannes Breuer ◽  
Michael Scharkow
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Website ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Robust Evidence ◽  
Representative Samples ◽  
News Use

Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 ( N = 2970) and 2018 ( N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by preferences. The infrastructural role of social media corresponded with reduced news avoidance and more varied news repertoires. Overall, the results suggest that research needs to reconsider commonly held premises regarding the uses of digital media in modern high-choice settings.

The Role of Local Intermediaries in the Process of Digitally Engaging Non-Users of the Internet

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sora Park
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

This article aims to provide a better understanding of the process of becoming digitally engaged. Those who cannot utilise digital networks are systematically disadvantaged, particularly in a hyper-connected world in which services are provided online by default. By interviewing and observing clients and trainers at a telecentre, the ACT Digital Hub, this study investigated the process that non-internet users undergo – from digital readiness to digital engagement – in order to become adept users. Intermediaries such as telecentres play a crucial role in equipping non-users with digital readiness, which is a precursor to digital media literacy. Social environment also plays a significant role in non-users' digital readiness. Rather than focusing merely on the provision of access to bridge the digital divide, we need a longer-term investment in adequate environments, such as sustainable community training centres, that nurture digital readiness.

Social credibility online: The role of online comments in assessing news article credibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanka Pjesivac ◽  
Nicholas Geidner ◽  
Jaclyn Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Source Expertise ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Twitter Users

This 2 × 2 experimental study (N = 196) tested the effects of source expertise and opinion valence in readers’ comments on the credibility of an online news story about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Source expertise had a significant influence on perceptions of article credibility; articles were judged more credible when public comments embedded in the story were from expert sources (e.g., scientists) rather than nonexpert sources (e.g., Twitter users). Effects were larger on high-frequency news users, regardless of whether comments were for or against GMOs. Results suggest that Internet users mainly use the peripheral or heuristic route of information processing to evaluate online news credibility. The importance for online journalism of social heuristics via opinions of other people is discussed.

scholarly journals Rola mediów w kształtowaniu tożsamości współczesnego człowieka

2015 ◽  
pp. 159-175
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Ideal

The aim of the study is to analyse the role of media in shaping of the modern man identity. I narrow my approach to the postmodern approaches of A. Giddens, M. Castells and M. Maffesoli. Those authors combine in their work changes taking place in the world of media and changes on the level of the individual identity. Based on the work of M. Maffesoli, I reconstruct the ideal type of postmodern individual identity – homo creator. Then, I describe the mediality as postmodern value and a component of postmodern identity. The study presents the results of a 2014 TNS Connected Life research report prepared on a sample of 55,000 Internet users from around the World. The results illustrate the habits in the use of traditional and new media.

Exploring the Integration of User-Generated Content in Media Organizations Through Participatory Journalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1152-1163
Author(s):  
Theodora A. Saridou ◽  
Andreas Veglis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Online News ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
News Production ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Work Routine

This chapter aims to offer an in-depth description of the concept of participatory journalism, which holds an important and constantly evolving part in the digital media production. First, the chapter presents an analytical framework of the audience participation in online news production as the adoption of user-generated content (UGC) in media via different forms, tools, and applications and during different stages of news production is examined. Furthermore, the problems organizations have to deal with when amateur content is involved with the professional in the everyday work routine are investigated. Finally, in this chapter perspectives on the role of social media and semantic web in the future of participatory journalism are discussed.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN SUPPORTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Benayad DJALILA ◽  
Mellak FAIZA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Real Income ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Individual

Achieving sustainable development is one of the most important challenges facing different countries to allow to tackle poverty and increase the average real income of the individual in addition to improving the standard of living of individuals, and thus reaching economic prosperty. Sustainable development seeks to achieve a balance between both economic growth and social welfare with optimal and rational exploitation natural resources to ensure the requirements of present and future generations. Therefore, digital media has an effective role in contributing to achieving sustainable development because of its prominent role in communicating ideas and convincing the public. Therefore, this study aimed to shed light on digital media and its role in supporting the sustainable development plan as the path to well- being and public benefit.

scholarly journals Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Heesook Choi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Late Night ◽  
The Impact ◽  
News Use

This study examines the participatory effects of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) model of communication effects, this study theorizes and tests structural relationships in which audience factors (e.g., partisanship, hard news use) guide political satire viewing, and information processing activities (e.g., political talk, social media expression) and cognitive outcomes (e.g., political knowledge, political efficacy) channel the impact of the audience factor-driven political satire viewing on participation. More importantly, this study examines, for the first time, the role of social media in both political satire viewing and political expression, and its influence on participation. Data from a nationally representative survey (N=573) suggest that hard news use is an essential prerequisite for the participatory effects of political satire viewing. In addition, partisanship is a key predictor of political satire viewing, and media channel matters, such that those who watch late-night talk shows on television are less likely to participate in politics, while those who watch late-night talk shows in the social media environment are more likely to participate in politics through political expression on social media. These findings highlight the importance of understanding who receives what messages from where and how in the contemporary media environment to better explain the effects of media.

scholarly journals Self-Reported Addiction to Pornography in a Nationally Representative Sample: The Role of Use Habits, Religiousness, and Moral Incongruence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Grubbs ◽  
Shane W Kraus ◽  
Samuel Perry
Keyword(s):  
Representative Sample ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Pornography Addiction ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Representative Samples

Background and Aims: Despite controversies regarding its existence as a legitimate mental health condition, self-reports of pornography addiction seem to occur regularly. In the United States, prior works using various sampling techniques, such as undergraduate samples and online convenience samples, have consistently demonstrated that some pornography users report feeling dysregulated or out of control in their use. Even so, there has been very little work in U.S. nationally representative samples to examine self-reported pornography addiction. Methods: The present study sought to examine self-reported pornography addiction in a U.S. nationally representative sample of adult internet users (N=2,075). Results: Results indicated that most participants had viewed pornography within their lifetimes (n = 1,461), with just over half reporting some use in the past year (n = 1,056). Moreover, roughly 11% of men and 3% of women reported some agreement with the statement “I am addicted to pornography.” Across all participants, such feelings were most strongly associated with male gender, younger age, greater religiousness, greater moral incongruence regarding pornography use, and greater use of pornography. Discussion and Conclusions: Collectively, these findings are consistent with prior works that have noted that self-reported pornography addiction is a complex phenomenon that is predicted by both objective behavior and subjective moral evaluations of that behavior.

Digital Media Activities and Connective Actions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis L. F Lee ◽  
Joseph M Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the role of digital media activities in the dynamics of the Umbrella Movement. It demonstrates how the participants of the movement engaged in a wide range of digital media activities, some of which were integral to the dynamics of the occupation. Digital media activities allowed participants to construct their own modes of participation. Digital media activities were found to relate to higher degrees of involvement in the Umbrella Movement at the individual level, but higher degrees of involvement were found to relate to lower levels of willingness to listen to the central organizers of the occupation. An analysis of social media contents also found a significant degree of decentralization of the protest campaign. Digital media activities therefore both empowered the movement and introduced forces of decentralization that constrained the organizers’ capability of negotiating with the targets.

The Diffusion of Ignorance in On-Line Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 843-857
Author(s):  
Selene Arfini ◽  
Tommaso Bertolotti ◽  
Lorenzo Magnani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online News ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
On Line ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Current Psychological ◽  
Anthropological Literature

This article aims to investigate how information-sharing mechanisms in online communities favor activities of ignorance distribution on their platforms, such as fake data, biased beliefs, and inaccurate statements. In brief, the authors claim that online communities provide more ways to connect the users to one another rather than to control the quality of the data they share and receive. This, in turn, diminishes the value of fact-checking mechanisms in online news-consumption. The authors contend that while digital environments can stimulate the interest of groups of students and amateurs in scientific and political topics, the diffusion of false, poor, and un-validated data through digital media contributes to the formation of bubbles of shallow understanding in the digitally informed public. In brief, the present article is a philosophical research that applies the virtual niche construction theory to the cognitive behavior of internet users, as it is described by the current psychological, sociological, and anthropological literature.

The Diffusion of Ignorance in On-Line Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selene Arfini ◽  
Tommaso Bertolotti ◽  
Lorenzo Magnani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online News ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
On Line ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Current Psychological ◽  
Anthropological Literature

This article aims to investigate how information-sharing mechanisms in online communities favor activities of ignorance distribution on their platforms, such as fake data, biased beliefs, and inaccurate statements. In brief, the authors claim that online communities provide more ways to connect the users to one another rather than to control the quality of the data they share and receive. This, in turn, diminishes the value of fact-checking mechanisms in online news-consumption. The authors contend that while digital environments can stimulate the interest of groups of students and amateurs in scientific and political topics, the diffusion of false, poor, and un-validated data through digital media contributes to the formation of bubbles of shallow understanding in the digitally informed public. In brief, the present article is a philosophical research that applies the virtual niche construction theory to the cognitive behavior of internet users, as it is described by the current psychological, sociological, and anthropological literature.

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