TY - JOUR
T1 - Incidentality on a continuum
T2 - A comparative conceptualization of incidental news consumption
AU - Mitchelstein, Eugenia
AU - Boczkowski, Pablo J.
AU - Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren
AU - Hayashi, Kaori
AU - Villi, Mikko
AU - Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H01833) and Global Partnership Fund of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University.
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© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - This article seeks to contribute to theorizing the dynamics of incidental news consumption. Through an analysis of 200 semi-structured interviews with people in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States, we show that intentionality in news consumption can be viewed on a continuum, which goes from deliberately setting apart time to access the news on specific outlets to skimming through unsought-for news on social and broadcast media, with intermediate practices such as respondents setting up an environment where they are more or less likely to encounter news. Drawing on structuration theory, this article conceptualizes incidental news in the context of the wider media environment and across multiple levels of analysis and explores how individual agency and social structure interact to shape information acquisition practices.
AB - This article seeks to contribute to theorizing the dynamics of incidental news consumption. Through an analysis of 200 semi-structured interviews with people in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States, we show that intentionality in news consumption can be viewed on a continuum, which goes from deliberately setting apart time to access the news on specific outlets to skimming through unsought-for news on social and broadcast media, with intermediate practices such as respondents setting up an environment where they are more or less likely to encounter news. Drawing on structuration theory, this article conceptualizes incidental news in the context of the wider media environment and across multiple levels of analysis and explores how individual agency and social structure interact to shape information acquisition practices.
KW - Audience studies
KW - broadcast news
KW - incidental news consumption
KW - online journalism
KW - social media
KW - transnational media studies
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U2 - 10.1177/1464884920915355
DO - 10.1177/1464884920915355
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084614306
VL - 21
SP - 1136
EP - 1153
JO - Journalism
JF - Journalism
SN - 1464-8849
IS - 8
ER -