News Use

Methodological challenges in audience research
Over the past years, social media platforms and messaging apps have become an integral part of people’s daily lives, including when it …
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Young adults’ information needs, use, and understanding in the context of Instagram: A multi-method study
The use of information has changed in recent years—particularly among young adults, for whom social media are now the most important …
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Social media information environments and their implications for the uses and effects of news: The PINGS framework
Social media have become a central source for news and current affairs information. This article focuses on the overarching attributes …
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Using messaging apps in audience research: An approach to study everyday information and news use practices
Messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger are an essential part of people’s communication practices, but have thus far …
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Worth to share? How content characteristics and article competitiveness influence news sharing on social network sites
We investigated how sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter is influenced both by news articles’ content characteristics and the …
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(Why) does comment presentation order matter for the effects of user comments? Assessing the role of the availability heuristic and the bandwagon heuristic
Research has shown that user comments influence peoples’ perceptions, with recent evidence suggesting that comment presentation order …
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Nebenbei, mobil und ohne Ziel? Eine Mehrmethodenstudie zu Nachrichtennutzung und -verständnis von jungen Erwachsenen
Particularly among young adults, the use and consumption of news and information has changed in the past years. The reliance on …
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The Matthew Effect in social media news use: Assessing inequalities in news exposure and news engagement on social network sites (SNS)
Social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become a key part of online users? news diets. On social network sites, even …
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Negativity wins at last: How presentation order and valence of user comments affect perceptions of journalistic quality
A number of studies show that user comments on news websites can affect news-related judgments and perceptions. However, with news …
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Online and (the feeling of being) informed: Online news usage patterns and their relation to subjective and objective political knowledge
As online news today is an important source of political information and available in vast quantities, understanding its use and its …
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