‘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.

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.

‘Just the way my generation reads the news’: News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 174276652097972
Author(s):  
Eylem Yanardağoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
Incidental Exposure ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
The Uk

Audiences’ media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth’s news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London and Istanbul. The findings show overarching common trends such as increased mobile news access, incidental exposure to news on social media, irregular snacking and verifying of news that drive youth’s news consumption behaviour. Findings also show that traditional media use for news has almost been replaced by online media and the modality of traditional media do not easily fit in with youth’s daily routine of studies, work and commute.

News as Entertainment Format

2021 ◽  
pp. 515-536
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Robinson ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Disposition Theory ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Affective Disposition Theory ◽  
News Event

The informative value of news has often been the focus of mass communication research, but individuals do tune into the news for entertainment purposes. In addition, news organizations frequently add entertainment elements into news stories to increase audience interest. Considering both of these factors, theorizing about the entertainment processes (e.g., appreciation, enjoyment, and suspense) that occur during news consumption is necessary to understand audience behavior. This chapter investigates factors that influence entertainment processes during news consumption. Two entertainment theories in particular (affective disposition theory and the affective news extended model) are reviewed to understand how affective responses influence enjoyment of news. It organizes existing research on affective responses and entertainment processes into two categories focusing on news event characteristics (i.e., elements that journalists cannot change) and message design principles that journalists create or edit. Areas for future research are provided.

scholarly journals Awareness Level of Visually Impaired College Students about Urdu Poets and Poetry in Punjab: A Qualitative Inquiry

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1151-1155
Author(s):  
Muhammad Jahanzaib ◽  
Samina Ashraf ◽  
Ghulam Fatima
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons ◽  
Awareness Level

Language has been the most popular source of communication in human society since the start of civilization. The tradition of Folk Tales appeared as the foundation of literature in ancient times. Poetry is a significant way of expression in human literature. Urdu language possesses uncountable master pieces of prose and poetry. Visually impaired persons have proved themselves as literature lovers, good readers and visionary poets in past and present. This study is an effort to depict the awareness level of visually impaired college students about Urdu poets and their creations. The population of the study consisted of all visually impaired students enrolled in public and private sector colleges located in the district Lahore and Okara. A self developed and validated structured interview schedule containing 10 open ended questions was used to collect data from conveniently selected sample of 30 visually impaired students (males= 18, females=12). Descriptive statistics (percentages of responses) were calculated, collected information was coded; major themes were derived and interpreted by qualitative data analysis technique. The Study reflected that the visually impaired college students were having a lot of information about Urdu poets and their creations although there seemed a lack of in depth knowledge. They reported the lack of talking books and material in Braille on Urdu poetry of great and famous poets. They suggested the establishment of talking libraries throughout the country. Major findings were reported, conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made to Punjab Higher Education Department. 

scholarly journals Technological stress in higher level students in San Luis Potosí

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Juana María HUERTA-GONZÁLEZ ◽  
Rosa Elia MARTÍNEZ-TORRES ◽  
Patricia RIVERA-ACOSTA ◽  
Gloria Del Carmen RENDÓN-SUSTAITA
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Face ◽  
Favorable Reaction ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
San Luis Potosí

During 2020, in the face of the recession caused by the COVID19 pandemic, public and private sectors suffer massive losses that force them to promote strategies for immediate reactivation. Education in México, despite estimating a considerable lag, had a favorable reaction towards "online classes” in all education levels. Through technological resources, administrative, teachers, parents and students were involved without having the opportunity to be questioned. As a result of this, a study was proposed with a quantitative approach and descriptive method, to keep record of the effects presented by college students before this modality. Natural stress is associated with social isolation through dimensions involving ICTs with the aim of diagnosing the personal, family, social and technological impact on college students in San Luis Potosí, to determine the effects that are adverse to their learning and professional life. The results will contribute to the development of strategies associated with the effective use of the ICTs that institutions offer and facilitate the teaching-learning process; the study also concluded according to the integral well-being of the student in this new modality.

Digital News and the Consumption of Political Information

2019 ◽  
pp. 248-262
Author(s):  
Silvia Majó-Vázquez ◽  
Sandra González-Bailón
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
The Web

The Internet has fundamentally changed how people access and use news. As Dutton and others (Chapter 13, this volume) note, there are concerns that the Internet leads us to get stuck in “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles”—limiting our access to points of view that might challenge our preexisting beliefs. This chapter introduces a network approach to analyzing news consumption in the digital age. The authors explain how we can compare patterns of news consumption across demographic groups, countries, and digital platforms, and determine if there are differences across groups of users and media systems. Measuring news consumption has long been difficult owing to the limitations of self-reported data, so this chapter is notable in offering a novel approach that leverages the digital traces that people leave behind when navigating the Web.

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.

The Business of Digital News

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Damon Kiesow
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Significant Alignment ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Organizational Roles

In news organizations today, editorial strategy is business strategy. The two are entirely intertwined. Understanding either requires studying both. With the shift to digital, the process of publishing the news has transitioned from a series of loosely coupled, sequential, and periodic production tasks to a set of complex, overlapping, and stochastic outputs requiring significant alignment and coordination to succeed. For journalists, these changes are challenging newsroom norms and driving an embrace of human-centered design practices and product thinking. For academics it is an opportunity to study the remaking of organizational roles and relationships in the business of digital news, an effort that is still in its infancy.

The culture of free: Construct explication and democratic ramifications for readers’ willingness to pay for public affairs news

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492091343
Author(s):  
Manuel Goyanes ◽  
Marton Demeter ◽  
Laura de Grado
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Depth Interviews

The homogenization and commoditization of news have risen since the emergence of the Internet, but have sharply increased in recent years due to economic constraints on news organizations and journalists’ labor conditions. This article explores readers’ perceptions and attitudes toward the economic and informative value of online news in particular, and toward the Internet as a means of news dissemination in general. Drawing upon 50 in-depth interviews with respondents from Spain aged 18–65 years, we conceptualize the lack of readers’ inclinations to pay for digital news as a culture of free and explore its main dimensions. Specifically, the culture of free is a strong orientation to considering news as a public good that must be free of charge, rooted in customs/habits of free consumption on the Internet over decades, fueled by free competition, subtended by advertising, and a lack of interest in the news more generally. Despite the fact that the digital versions might be theoretically considered as inferior, we argue that both products (print vs online) are equally valuable (economically and informatively) and the only divergence lies in their format and thus in their price.

Journalism and Its Audience

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen ◽  
Allaina Kilby
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Television News ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
News Production ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Technological Developments

The relationship between journalism and its audience has undergone significant transformations from the earliest newspapers in the 18th century to 21st-century digital news. The role of the audience (and journalists’ conceptions of it) has been shaped by economic, social, and technological developments. Though the participation of the audience has always been important to news organizations, it has taken very different forms across times, genres, and platforms. Early newspapers drew on letters from their publics as vital sources of information and opinion, while radio established a more intimate relationship with its audience through its mode of address. Though television news genres may not have emphasized audience engagement, research on the medium was heavily invested in understanding how it affected its audience. The rise of the Internet as a platform for journalism has represented a significant turning point in several respects. First, it has challenged conventional hierarchies of news production and value by facilitating user-generated content and social media, enhancing opportunities for audience contributions. This presents new opportunities for engagement but also challenges journalists’ professional identities, compelling them to assert their authority and skill sets. Further, digital journalism has led to the rise of the quantified audience, leading to the increased role of metrics in driving the behavior of journalists. As the audience and its behavior are shifting, so are the practices of journalism. The two actors—journalists and audiences—remain interlocked in what may be a troubled marriage, but one which is structurally compelled to change and grow over time.

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