News on the Internet

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-539196-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of "news " have shifted and become blurred. News on the Internet synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptual map for understanding the way that public affairs and news are presented and consumed on the internet.

Tewksbury and Rittenberg look at the dual role of the internet as a source of authoritative news and as a vehicle for citizens in contemporary democracies to create and share political information. Throughout, they address the tension between the benefits of internet news provision, specifically increased citizen engagement, and the negative, perhaps counterintuitive, effects: the fragmentation of knowledge and polarization of opinion in contemporary democracies. News on the Internet focuses on these points of conflict and contradiction in the online news environment and offers conclusions and predictions for how these phenomena will develop in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tewksbury

Tewksbury, David

Rittenberg, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1 Introduction

- Chapter 2 Shifting Audiences

- Chapter 3 Offline and Online News Content

- Chapter 4 News Specialization and Segmentation

- Chapter 5 Selecting News Online

- Chapter 6 Learning from Online News

- Chapter 7 Fragmentation and Polarization of the Audience

- Chapter 8 Information Democratization

- Chapter 9 Online News and Public Affairs

- Notes

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Tewksbury is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jason Rittenberg is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.