Changing News Use

Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describe how changing news user patterns and journalism practices have been mutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media can learn from these changes.

Irene Costera Meijer is Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a world-leading journalism and media scholar, having recently set the agenda for the audience turn in journalism studies. Her research has appeared in many journals and books and focuses on what news users value about journalism. Tim Groot Kormelink is Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work centers around capturing and making sense of everyday news use and has appeared in such journals as Journalism, Journalism Studies, Digital Journalism, Media, Culture &Society, and International Journal of Press/Politics.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Changing news use, unchanged news experiences? Chapter 2: Scrolling, triangulating, tagging and abstaining: The diversification of news use between 2004-2020 Chapter 3: What clicking actually means Chapter 4: A user perspective on Time Spent: Temporal experiences of everyday news use Chapter 5: Material and sensory dimensions of everyday news use Chapter 6: How to deal with news user practices, preferences and pleasures? From audience responsiveness to audience sensitivity References