What is News? A Young Peoples’ Perspective in Kenya

IF 1.1 3区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

African Journalism Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/23743670.2021.2011760

E. Tallam

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study investigates emerging news consumption patterns among a contingent of young people drawn from two public universities in Kenya. Guided by the relatively new concept of scalable sociality and emerging third wave of non-normative audience studies in sub-Saharan Africa, this study maps emerging news exposure avenues among young people in Kenya. Through a mixed approach, it specifically explores how young people access and consume news through internet-enabled mobile devices. It also probes how young people define news and draws a nexus between the rise of news technologies, particularly mobile phones and the shifting definition(s) of news. Findings support the conclusion that internet-enabled mobile devices continue to cause unprecedented disruption in Kenya. This has profoundly altered the understanding of news. News was mainly understood as a node that connects young people to themselves and to the social world. However, the ambivalence evident in young people’s conceptualization of news is reflective of the dynamic society within which the internet and mobile devices are critical catalysts in accessing and consuming news. News consumption thus becomes a complex, multilayered process enmeshed in a web of technical and social networks online and offline.

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什么是新闻？肯尼亚年轻人的视角

本研究调查了来自肯尼亚两所公立大学的一群年轻人的新兴新闻消费模式。在相对较新的可扩展社会性概念和撒哈拉以南非洲新兴的第三波非规范性受众研究的指导下，本研究绘制了肯尼亚年轻人中新兴的新闻曝光途径。通过一种混合的方法，它特别探讨了年轻人如何通过支持互联网的移动设备访问和消费新闻。它还探讨了年轻人如何定义新闻，并在新闻技术的兴起，特别是移动电话和新闻定义的变化之间建立了联系。调查结果支持这样一个结论，即支持互联网的移动设备继续在肯尼亚造成前所未有的破坏。这深刻地改变了人们对新闻的理解。新闻主要被理解为连接年轻人与自己和社会世界的节点。然而，年轻人对新闻的概念中明显的矛盾心理反映了动态社会，在这个社会中，互联网和移动设备是获取和消费新闻的关键催化剂。因此，新闻消费成为一个复杂的、多层次的过程，它被卷入了一个线上和线下的技术和社会网络之中。

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African Journalism Studies COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training for university research purposes African Journalism Studies subscribes to the Code of Best Practice for Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journals of the Academy of Science of South Africa. African Journalism Studies ( AJS) aims to contribute to the ongoing extension of the theories, methodologies and empirical data to under-researched areas of knowledge production, through its emphasis on African journalism studies within a broader, comparative perspective of the Global South. AJS strives for theoretical diversity and methodological inclusivity, by developing theoretical approaches and making critical interventions in global scholarly debates. The journal''s comparative and interdisciplinary approach is informed by the related fields of cultural and media studies, communication studies, African studies, politics, and sociology. The field of journalism studies is understood broadly, as including the practices, norms, value systems, frameworks of representation, audiences, platforms, industries, theories and power relations that relate to the production, consumption and study of journalism. A wide definition of journalism is used, which extends beyond news and current affairs to include digital and social media, documentary film and narrative non-fiction.