The News Gap

When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge

Bibliographic Data

ID23398390
AuthorsPablo J Boczkowski (0000-0002-9446-8303), Eugenia Mitchelstein (0000-0001-7355-8740)
Year2013
Pages302
Publication date2013-11-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe News Gap (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9780262019835.001.0001
WikidataQ111714817
OpenAlexW4236371339
Open LibraryOL26119678M
ISBN9780262019835
LanguageEN
Citations received115

An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age. The websites of major media organizations—CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others—provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine the divergence in preferences and consider its implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture, and that it is not affected by innovations in forms of storytelling, such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Drawing upon these findings, they explore the news gap's troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.

Political science · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Analyse sociologique · Audiences · Edition électronique · Informationsnachfrage · Internet · Journalism · Journalisme en ligne · Journalismus · Language Arts & Disciplines · Lectorat (Presse) · Massamedia · Media Studies · Médias · News audiences · Nieuwsvoorziening · Online journalism · Online-Medien · Political aspects · Public · Publikumsforschung · Social aspects · Social Science · Utilisateurs d'information

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