News on the internet information and citizenship in the 21st century
Title:
News on the internet information and citizenship in the 21st century
Author:
Tewksbury, David.
ISBN:
9780199875061
9781280595257
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Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Oxford studies in digital politics
Oxford studies in digital politics.
Contents:
Introduction -- Shifting audiences -- Offline and online news content -- News specialization and segmentation -- Selecting news online -- Learning from online news -- Fragmentation and polarization of the audience -- Information democratization -- Online news and public affairs.
Abstract:
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of "news" have shifted and become blurred. News on the Internet synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptua.
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