Swedish teenagers on the cusp of adulthood consider news found on social media as being less ‘real’ than news received via traditional media, writes Malin Sveningsson from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conclusion was reached after a qualitative, multi-method research into the news consumption habits of 26 Swedish highschoolers. The participants were selected from … Continued

Research into news sharing on social media is, among other things, too Twitter-centric, write Anna Sophie Kümpel, Veronika Karnowski and Till Keyling, all of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. They reviewed articles and conference papers related to the topic, published from 2004 to 2014. Their eventual sample consisted of 109 pieces of literature, out of … Continued