TY - JOUR
T1 - The Smells, Sights, and Pleasures of Ink on Paper
T2 - The Consumption of Print Newspapers During a Period Marked by Their Crisis
AU - Boczkowski, Pablo J.
AU - Mitchelstein, Eugenia
AU - Suenzo, Facundo
PY - 2020/4/3
Y1 - 2020/4/3
N2 - Much has been written about the crisis of print newspapers, but with more attention paid to issues of production and distribution rather than reception. Furthermore, the scholarship on contemporary print newspaper reception has been limited by a focus on the information dimension and on countries in the Global North. To help overcome these limitations, in this paper we ask two questions that inquire into the reception of print newspapers in the contemporary media environment, and do so within a country from the Global South. Drawing upon an analysis of 158 semi-structured interviews conducted in the City of Buenos Aires and other parts of the country, we find that people continue reading print newspapers not solely, or even primarily, for the information contained in their pages, but for dynamics that tie together news content with materiality, routinization, and larger practices of incorporation of this media artifact into their daily lives. These dynamics are partly shaped by distinctive aspects of the Argentine context, including business strategies, family rituals, urban patterns, and a culture of nostalgia.
AB - Much has been written about the crisis of print newspapers, but with more attention paid to issues of production and distribution rather than reception. Furthermore, the scholarship on contemporary print newspaper reception has been limited by a focus on the information dimension and on countries in the Global North. To help overcome these limitations, in this paper we ask two questions that inquire into the reception of print newspapers in the contemporary media environment, and do so within a country from the Global South. Drawing upon an analysis of 158 semi-structured interviews conducted in the City of Buenos Aires and other parts of the country, we find that people continue reading print newspapers not solely, or even primarily, for the information contained in their pages, but for dynamics that tie together news content with materiality, routinization, and larger practices of incorporation of this media artifact into their daily lives. These dynamics are partly shaped by distinctive aspects of the Argentine context, including business strategies, family rituals, urban patterns, and a culture of nostalgia.
KW - Print newspapers
KW - audiences
KW - journalism
KW - materiality
KW - news consumption
KW - newspaper reading
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U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2019.1670092
DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2019.1670092
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073949074
VL - 21
SP - 565
EP - 581
JO - Journalism Studies
JF - Journalism Studies
SN - 1461-670X
IS - 5
ER -