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ARTICLE: What makes a headline clickable – and what doesn’t?

The audience has many different reasons to click on an article – or to avoid clicking it, Tim Groot Kormelink and Irene Costera Meijer, both of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, write. 56 Dutch were asked to browse online news as they normally would, and explain to interviewers their decisions to either click or not to click … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism
Published: 6 Feb 2017

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ARTICLE: What works in motion graphics?

A study by Spencer Barnes, of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, investigated how different motion graphic structures affect user experience. Barnes conducted an experiment with 82 US college students, who were exposed to variations of two different motion graphics. The students then answered questions that measured, for example, immersion and comprehension. The classical … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism, visuality
Published: 3 Feb 2017

ARTICLE: From co-producers to distributors

New article by Arne H. Krumsvik, of University of Oslo and Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, looks at the strategic priority of approaches towards user involvement in digital news media and how these are changing over time. A series of surveys were conducted among editorial staff. The results show that from 2012 to 2015 the role of … Continued

Tags: audience, journalistic identity, journalistic profession
Published: 31 Jan 2017

ARTICLE: Native ads undermine trust in news

Viewing political native advertisements decreases the audience’s trust in political news, a study by Magnus Hoem Iversen and Erik Knudsen, both of University of Bergen, proves. The authors had 733 Norwegians participate in an online experiment. The participants first viewed pieces of political news that were labelled either clearly or vaguely as advertisements. A control … Continued

Tags: audience, political journalism
Published: 30 Jan 2017

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REPORT: What do people wish of news site comment sections in the US?

A new report from the Engaging News Project did a large survey about news comment sections on 20 news websites. The report is written by Talia Stroud, Emily Van Duyn, Alexis Alizor and Cameron Lang of the University of Texas at Austin. The survey seeked to find out what people think about news comment sections … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism
Published: 26 Jan 2017

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ARTICLE: Negativity can discourage interaction with political news

Do negative political news online always attract more attention and interaction than civil news? Article by Ashely Muddiman of the University of Kansas, Jamie Pond-Cobb of Wayne State University and Jamie E. Matson of Winona State University studies interaction with different kind of political content. The authors conducted two experiments testing whether negativity always increasess … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism, political journalism
Published: 19 Jan 2017

ARTICLE: Audience evaluations of news visualizations

The use of infographics in the news has become more common in recent years. Yael de Haan, of University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, Sanne Kruikemeier, of University of Amsterdam, Sophie Lecheler, of University of Vienna, Gerard Smit, of University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, and Renee van der Nat, of University of Applied Sciences … Continued

Tags: audience
Published: 17 Jan 2017

ARTICLE: Election campaigns mobilize both news users and avoiders

There are no clear differences in to what extent “news seekers” and “news avoiders” are mobilized by election campaigns, Jesper Strömbäck, of University of Gothenburg, writes. Strömbäck conducted a four-wave panel survey with 2 281 Swedes in 2014, when both parliamentary and europarliamentary elections were held in Sweden. It was Strömbäck’s assumption that the increased … Continued

Tags: audience, political journalism, Sweden
Published: 17 Jan 2017