Een typologie van jonge nieuwsgebruikers in een multimediaal landschap

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Van Cauwenberge ◽  
Hans Beentjes ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Online News ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Low Level ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Online News Sites

A typology of young news users in the Low Countries A typology of young news users in the Low Countries This article investigates different types of young news users (15-34 years) in the Low Countries. Therefore a survey among 1200 Flemish and Dutch youngsters and adolescents was conducted, analyzing the combined use of media platforms for news consumption and time spent with these news carriers. The cluster analysis identified five types of news users: the sound and vision group, characterized by the use of mainly audiovisual news platforms, combined with online news sites; the e-news users, who give most prominence to online news sites but also rely on traditional news platforms, the all rounders, depending on a range of off- and online news channels; the traditionalists, who spent most time with offline news media; and the dabblers, a group with an overall low level of news consumption. Our results indicate that Flemish and Dutch youngsters combine online and traditional news platforms for their news gathering, giving most prominence to traditional news media, especially television news.

scholarly journals Exploring digital divides in older adults’ news consumption

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Annika Bergström
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Ageing Populations ◽  
Digital Newspapers

AbstractMedia structure is rapidly steering towards digital formats and distribution. Meanwhile, many Western societies have ageing populations, where older adults are less digitally active than the population at large. This, combined with the fact that the news media are crucial in providing information and fostering engagement and cohesion, means that the news consumption of older adults deserves scholarly attention. Based on national representative surveys, this article analyses the use of traditional and digital news among people aged 66 to 85 between 2014 and 2018. The findings show that the overall reading of newspapers is decreasing among pensioners of all ages, whereas radio and television news both have rather stable audience shares. Despite the overall decline of newspaper reading, the reading of digital newspapers is becoming more common, and digital newspapers seem, to some extent, to have replaced printed newspapers. Concerning factors explaining digital news consumption among the 65+ group, general Internet habits, sex, and political interest are shown to be the most important.

scholarly journals From tradition to change: a study of journalistic trends in digital news reporting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Major Research ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Online News Sites ◽  
Language Content

The birth of the World Wide Web has made it convenient and cheaper to produce and transfer information to the receiver. Many online news sites provide information for free and the Internet and social media have brought on the affordance to self-publish and engage with the media. New media tools have made it easier to produce a variety of online blogs, magazines, digital papers and content aggregators. In the wake of the information era, journalism has developed into niche news sites, producing different types of news writing. By analyzing news accounts from the same event, this Major Research Paper compares how news language, content and structure deviate between traditional and alternative online news sites. The study reveals that alternative news sources tend to report their news in a more subjective manner, deviating from the goal of being objective, a fundamental element in traditional journalism. Analysis of how information is structured in the news articles also reveals that alternative news sites deviate from traditional forms of the inverted pyramid style (Kovach and Rosenstiel, 2007, p. 82), reporting in a narrative, chronological fashion.

Towards rising inequalities in newspaper and television news consumption? A longitudinal analysis, 2000–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Bergström ◽  
Jesper Strömbäck ◽  
Sofia Arkhede
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Television News ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
The Impact

The transformation from low- to high-choice media environments has triggered concerns of rising inequalities in news media use. This concern has been buttressed by research showing that motivational factors have become more important predictors of news media use. Less attention has been paid to how changes in media environments have altered the impact of socioeconomic status on news media use. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate the changing impact of socioeconomic status on newspaper and television news consumption, empirically focussing on Sweden between 2000 and 2016. Among other things, results suggest that the impact of socioeconomic status on news media use has increased with respect to reading morning newspapers but decreased for reading tabloids and watching television news.

scholarly journals We are what we click: Understanding time and content-based habits of online news readers

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482093322
Author(s):  
Mykola Makhortykh ◽  
Claes de Vreese ◽  
Natali Helberger ◽  
Jaron Harambam ◽  
Dimitrios Bountouridis
Keyword(s):  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Clickstream Data ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Limited Variation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Average Distribution

The article contributes both conceptually and methodologically to the study of online news consumption by introducing new approaches to measuring user information behaviour and proposing a typology of users based on their click behaviour. Using as a case study two online outlets of large national newspapers, it employs computational approaches to detect patterns in time- and content-based user interactions with news content based on clickstream data. The analysis of interactions detects several distinct timelines of news consumption and scrutinises how users switch between news topics during reading sessions. Using clustering analysis, the article then identifies several types of news readers (e.g. samplers, gourmets) and examines their news diets. The results point out the limited variation in topical composition of the news diets between different types of readers and the tendency of these diets to align with the news supply patterns (i.e. the average distribution of topics covered by the outlet).

scholarly journals Online News in India: Appraising the Digital News Consumption Landscape in theWorld’s Largest Democracy (2014-2018)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhayan Mukerjee
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Web Browsing ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Browsing Behavior ◽  
The Web

How do people in the world's largest democracy consume online news? This article reports findings from the analysis of a novel empirical dataset tracking the web-browsing behavior of more than 50,000 Indian internet users over 45 months. In doing so, it seeks to understand the digital news consumption landscape of a crucial, but understudied context and appraise the prominence and longitudinal trends of the audience share of different types of news sources in the online Indian space. It finds that while digital-born media have not contested the hegemony of legacy media, regional vernacular media have suffered significant declines in their audience shares. The article proposes the concept of audience mobility, using it to identify qualitatively distinct dynamics in how vernacular audiences in India have migrated to national vis-à-vis international outlets. The findings are discussed in light of contemporary changes in Indian society that is characterized by increasing digitization and literacy.

scholarly journals News Consumption across Media Platforms and Content

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (S1) ◽  
pp. 332-354
Author(s):  
Sabine Geers
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Online News ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Media Repertoires

Abstract In a changing information environment in which people increasingly select a combination of media platforms to consume news, scholars have taken a more comprehensive approach in measuring news consumption by examining news media repertoires. This study specifically (1) examines news repertoires of young people, based on their combined usage of media platforms and news content preferences; and (2) examines their variation due to social background characteristics. Results from a survey of Dutch adolescents (N = 1,084; age 16 to 21) reveal four distinct news repertoires: labeled minimalists, omnivores, traditionalists, and online news users. Findings further suggest that platform-based news repertoires are related to preferences for specific news content. Finally, this study contributes to the digital divide literature by demonstrating that inequalities in news media usage related to education do not seem to apply to younger citizens.

scholarly journals New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian S. Czymara ◽  
Marijn van Klingeren
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Key Events

Abstract News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

scholarly journals ‘Our words are stronger’: Re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Sumiala ◽  
Tiina Räisä
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Media Ethnography ◽  
Media Events ◽  
News Events ◽  
News Event ◽  
Online News Sites

This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on media events as public rituals in news media and applies digital media ethnography as its method. Fieldwork is conducted in 15 online news sites. The article identifies three key phases through which the ritual work was carried out: the rupture in the news event (ritualised as the strike), the liminal phase (ritualised as the manhunt) and the reconstitution of order following the attack (ritualised as the mourning). The article concludes with an interpretation of the broader social implications of the ritual work and related naturalisation of ‘friends’ and ‘foes’ and suggests that this type of ritual work contributes to a collective mythologisation of terrorism in news media and society at large.

Online News Consumption in Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Galiya Ibrayeva ◽  
Saltanat Anarbaeva ◽  
Violetta Filchenko ◽  
Lola Olimova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Online News ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Depth Interviews

This investigation is the first attempt in Central Asia to measure online news consumption. It focuses on identifying trends of online news consumption and sources of news content in the region. The publication contains the results of online survey with participation of 4,130 online news consumers, in-depth interviews with 20 experts in new media who know regional and local peculiarities of news outlets, and analysis of news accounts in social media. The research will be useful to journalism faculties, news media, researchers, and international organisations, as well as to all who are interested in development of digital media in the region. The publication is available in English, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek languages.

scholarly journals Voices in health communication — experts and expert-roles in the German news coverage of multi resistant pathogens

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. A03
Author(s):  
Matthias Wagner ◽  
Gwendolin Gurr ◽  
Miriam Siemon
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Report ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Expert Sources ◽  
Media Reports

When it comes to complex topics in the field of health and risk communication, experts are of high importance for the credibility of a news media report. This paper examines the use of experts and their roles in the news media coverage of multi-resistant pathogens by means of a quantitative content analysis of German print and online news. A cluster analysis of the expert statements identifies three different statement frames describing different expert roles. The results show manifest patterns of selected expert sources, which points to professionalized mechanisms of selecting expert sources for news media reports.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document