Young people's news orientations and uses of traditional and new media for news

被引:19
作者
Van Cauwenberge, Anna [1 ,2 ]
d'Haenens, Leen [1 ,2 ]
Beentjes, Hans [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Leuven, Inst Media Studies, Louvain, Belgium
[2] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Dept Commun Studies, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[3] Univ Amsterdam, Dept Commun Sci, NL-1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
来源
COMMUNICATIONS-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH | 2013年 / 38卷 / 04期
关键词
news consumption; young people; focus groups; public service broadcasting; new media; ONLINE NEWS; CITIZENSHIP; POLITICS; INFORMATION; INTERNET; HETEROGENEITY; NEWSPAPERS; YOUTH;
D O I
10.1515/commun-2013-0022
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This article reports on Flemish college students' news orientations and their uses of traditional and new media for news within a public service media environment. We used five homogeneous focus groups that covered variation in news media use. The analysis of the focus groups revealed major differences in news behaviors and attitudes between participants who mainly depended on traditional media for news, and those who also went online for news. While a growing body of research reports on young people's increasing use of online media for news, particularly among those that are most disengaged with traditional news media, our findings indicated that only the most eager news-users were motivated to gather information online. Additionally, we found that traditional media, in particular national quality papers and the Flemish public service newscast, were still the main reference points for public affairs information among our participants.
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页码:367 / 388
页数:22
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