Elvestad / Phillips Misunderstanding News Audiences

Seven Myths of the Social Media Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-44434-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Communication and Society

Misunderstanding News Audiences interrogates the prevailing myths around the impact of the internet and social media on news consumption and democracy. The book draws on a broad range of comparative research into audience engagement with news, across different geographic regions, to provide insight into the experience of news audiences in the 21st Century.

From its inception, it was imagined that the internet would benignly transform the nature of news media and its consumers. There were predictions that it would, for example, break up news oligarchies, improve plurality and diversity through news personalisation, create genuine social solidarity online and increase political awareness and participation among citizens. However, this book finds that, while mainstream news media is still the major source of news, the new media environment appears to lead to greater polarization between news junkies and news avoiders and greater political polarization. The authors also argue the dominant role of the US in the field of news audience research has created myths about a global news audience, which obscures the importance of national context as a major explanation for news exposure differences.

Misunderstanding News Audiences presents an important analysis of findings from recent audience studies and, in doing so, encourages readers to re-evaluate popular beliefs about the influence of the internet on news consumption and democracy in the West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elvestad, Eiri

Phillips, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Personalisation and News Chapter Three: We Are All Journalists Now Chapter Four: The Wisdom of Crowds? How algorithms rule online Chapter Five: Globalisation Chapter Six: Communities online are replacing communities offline Chapter Seven: The End of Trust in Mainstream Media Chapter Eight: The net generation will revolutionise the way we relate to news Chapter Nine: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Eiri Elvestad is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University College of Southeast Norway. She is the author of two books, including a book concerned with Norwegian adolescents’ relationship to news, and she has written several articles about the changing media environment and news exposure in international journals.

Angela Phillips is a Professor of Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She worked as a journalist in print, broadcast and online before focusing on academic research in ethics working practices and news audiences. Her last book was Journalism in Context (2015).