Social inequality and news media repertoires in seven MENA countries

Robin Leuppert; Ilhem Allagui; Christoph Klimmt

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Social inequality and news media repertoires in seven MENA countries

Robin Leuppert^*, Ilhem Allagui, Christoph Klimmt

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Social inequality shapes peoples’ chances and strategies to keep informed about current affairs. We study citizens’ news media repertoires – individual patterns of combining selected news media – in a world region of extreme social inequality within and between countries: the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). We report a secondary analysis of a large-scale survey in seven MENA countries to develop news user typologies. We explore how digital forces shape news media repertoires to determine the influence of social inequality on the population’s information routines regarding current affairs, and investigate the diversity of the inhabitants’ media repertoires.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	273-294
Number of pages	22
Journal	Global Media and Communication
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665241289262
State	Published - Dec 2024

Keywords

Audience studies
cluster analysis
cross-national comparison
media usage patterns
MENA
Middle East and Northern Africa
news media repertoire
secondary analysis

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Communication
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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