REPORT: How teens think about news?
Teens and young adults express low levels of trust in the news media, finds a new report by Data & Society Research Institute. The report studies youth news consumption behavior on mobile … Continued
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CFP | 30.3. | What about audiences needs researching – and how?
Conference entitled “Audiences2030: Imagining a future for audiences” is calling for paper proposals. The event will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 28th and 29th of September 2017. The … Continued
ARTICLE: Participation not important to audience
What do citizens think of citizen journalism? Michael Karlsson and Christer Clerwall of Karlstad University and Lars Nord of Mid Sweden University used a survey and focus group interviews to … Continued
CFP | 30.4. | Conservative media in the US and beyond
Editors of an upcoming, edited book on conservative media are looking for chapter proposals. The book’s working title is “News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures”, and it is … Continued
ARTICLE: Visual aids help viewers recall numbers from TV news
Presenting numerical data in tables or graphs will help TV news audience recall the information, a study on American college students shows. Ivanka Pjesivac, of University of Georgia, with Nicholas … Continued
ARTICLE: What do migrants use the host country’s media for?
Amanda Alencar, of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Mark Deuze, of University of Amsterdam, interviewed 49 immigrants over their media use. The sample included migrant workers and refugees living in either … Continued
ARTICLE: For audience engagement, print is still king
Audiences to United Kingdom’s largest news brands still overwhelmingly consume their news via print, Neil Thurman, of both Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and University of London, discovered. Thurman used … Continued
ARTICLE: Online audience engagement is not that important
Audience engagement features affect the perceived value of a news outlet only slightly, Isabelle Krebs and Juliane A. Lischka, both of University of Zurich, write. The authors surveyed 313 Swiss … Continued
ARTICLE: Distrust of news associated with use of non-mainstream sources
People who generally distrust the news media are more likely to get their news from non-mainstream sources, Richard Fletcher, of University of Oxford, and Sora Park, of University of Canberra, … Continued
ARTICLE: Writing about solutions will leave readers wanting more
If a story on social problems includes information about potential solutions, the readers will be more interested to read more on the subject, Karen McIntyre, of Virginia Commonwealth University, writes. … Continued