News consumption repertoires among Finnish adolescents: Moderate digital traditionalists, minimalist social media stumblers, and frequent omnivores

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Nordicom Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.2478/nor-2022-0014

Niina Sormanen, Eero Rantala, M. Lonkila, Terhi‐Anna Wilska

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Abstract

Abstract Young people are perceived as heavy consumers of social media and less avid consumers of news. That notion, however, deserves nuance: Many factors, such as the national context, media system, trust in news, intentionally or incidentally encountering news from different sources, and interest in politics, influence how young people consume news. This study explores news consumption among Finnish adolescents through a representative survey of 15–19-year-olds. We seek to answer two research questions: What are the news repertoires of Finnish adolescents? And what factors predict different news repertoires? Latent profile analysis reveals three distinct news repertoires: 1) moderate digital traditionalists, the largest group, embracing traditional news in digital form; 2) minimalist social media stumblers, the second-largest group, tending to consume news infrequently through passive social media encounters and lacking credible information; and 3) a quite large number of frequent news omnivores, taking an interest in diverse news forms and actively seeking them.

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芬兰青少年的新闻消费习惯:适度的数字传统主义者，极简主义的社交媒体踉踉绊绊者，频繁的杂食者

摘要年轻人被认为是社交媒体的重度消费者，而不是新闻的狂热消费者。然而，这一概念值得细致入微：许多因素，如国家背景、媒体体系、对新闻的信任、有意或无意地遇到来自不同来源的新闻，以及对政治的兴趣，都会影响年轻人消费新闻的方式。这项研究通过对15-19岁青少年的代表性调查，探讨了芬兰青少年的新闻消费。我们试图回答两个研究问题：芬兰青少年的新闻节目是什么？哪些因素可以预测不同的新闻节目？潜在轮廓分析揭示了三种截然不同的新闻流派：1）温和的数字传统主义者，最大的群体，以数字形式拥抱传统新闻；2）极简主义社交媒体搅局者是第二大群体，他们倾向于通过被动的社交媒体接触来消费新闻，并且缺乏可信的信息；（3）相当多的频繁新闻杂食者，对多样化的新闻形式感兴趣并积极寻求。

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2.80

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9.10%

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52 weeks