Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media
| dc.contributor.author | Boczkowski, Pablo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitchelstein, Eugenia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Matassi, Mora | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-29T00:44:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-29T00:44:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-01-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the dynamics of news consumption on social media through sixteen open-ended interviews with young users from Argentina. It adopts a texto-material perspective to explore the role of technology and users’ motivations, actions and interpretations. The interviews reveal that the ideal-typical mode in which young users consume news on social media can be characterized with the notion of “incidental news”: most young users get the news on their mobile devices as part of their constant connection to media platforms; they encounter the news all the time, rather than looking for it; but click on them only sporadically and spend little time engaging with the content. Thus, the news becomes un-differentiated from the rest of the social and entertainment information. This mode of news access marks a significant discontinuity with the consumption of news on other media. It also raises major editorial and political implications. | |
| dc.format.extent | 8 pages | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.24251/HICSS.2017.217 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9981331-0-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41371 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Latin America Mobile technology News Social media | |
| dc.title | Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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