Abstract
This article reviews the scholarship on online news consumption, addresses the limitations of this scholarship, and proposes avenues for future inquiries. It examines the scholarship in five areas: displacement and complementarity between traditional and online news consumption; audience fragmentation and homogenization; online news and political knowledge; Internet information as a resource for participation; and the user as a content producer. The assessment suggests that while audiences have straddled between tradition and transformation in their news consumption practices, most scholarly examinations have been characterized by stability rather than innovation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc |
| Pages | 793-797 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
Keywords
- Audience fragmentation
- Audiences
- Internet publics
- Media consumption
- New media scholarship
- Online journalism
- Online news
- Online news consumption
- Participation
- Political knowledge
- User-generated content
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)