‘Just the way my generation reads the news’: News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK

IF 1.5 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Global Media and Communication Pub Date : 2020-12-18 DOI:10.1177/1742766520979729

Eylem Yanardağoğlu

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Audiences’ media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth’s news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London and Istanbul. The findings show overarching common trends such as increased mobile news access, incidental exposure to news on social media, irregular snacking and verifying of news that drive youth’s news consumption behaviour. Findings also show that traditional media use for news has almost been replaced by online media and the modality of traditional media do not easily fit in with youth’s daily routine of studies, work and commute.

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“就像我们这代人看新闻的方式”:土耳其和英国年轻人的新闻消费习惯

受众的媒介使用和新闻消费行为不断发生变化。一些学者指出，年轻人新闻消费的日益下降引发了人们对各种媒体系统中民主未来的担忧。本研究通过解释的方法探讨了影响英国和土耳其大学生新闻消费行为的因素。这些数据是基于对在伦敦和伊斯坦布尔主要大学学习的约50名学生的定性深度访谈。调查结果显示了推动年轻人新闻消费行为的总体共同趋势，如移动新闻访问的增加、在社交媒体上偶然接触新闻、不定期吃零食和核实新闻。调查结果还显示，传统媒体对新闻的使用几乎已经被网络媒体所取代，传统媒体的模式不容易适应年轻人的日常学习、工作和通勤。

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Global Media and Communication COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.