Are You Paying Attention? Keeping Up with News in Daily Life
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A still understudied area in media research is how people pay attention to news in daily life. To do so, the chapter develops a theoretical framework grounded in news audience research and practice theory. This framework conceptualizes practices as different ways in which attention is directed and sustained. To study such attention practices, 16 semi-structured interviews with adult Danes are carried out. Through a thematic analysis of these interviews, the chapter explores how ways of attending relate to individual media and how patterns of daily life enable some practices and constrain others. In the concluding discussion, the chapter relates the findings to further perspectives on attention to news specifically and media content more generally. Accordingly, this chapter contributes to cross-media news research by analyzing ways in which people attend to news and how these ways of attending vary across media.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | News Across Media : Production, Distribution and Consumption |
Editors | Jakob Linaa Jensen, Mette Mortensen, Jacob Ørmen |
Number of pages | 18 |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 2016 |
Pages | 162-179 |
Chapter | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138911734 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315692456 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Series | Routledge research in journalism |
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Volume | 16 |
ID: 169882936