David Tewksbury, Jason Rittenberg

News on the Internet (eBook, ePUB)

Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 conceptual map for understanding the way that public affairs and news are presented and consumed on the internet. Tewksbury and Rittenberg look at the dual role of the internet as a source of authoritative news and as a vehicle for citizens in contemporary democracies to create and share political information. Throughout, they address the tension between the benefits of internet news provision, specifically increased citizen engagement, and the negative, perhaps counterintuitive, effects: the fragmentation of knowledge and polarization of opinion in contemporary democracies. News on the Internet focuses on these points of conflict and contradiction in the online news environment and offers conclusions and predictions for how these phenomena will develop in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199939305
• Artikelnr.: 38163986

Autorenporträt

David Tewksbury is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jason Rittenberg is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Shifting Audiences
Chapter 3 Offline and Online News Content
Chapter 4 News Specialization and Segmentation
Chapter 5 Selecting News Online
Chapter 6 Learning from Online News
Chapter 7 Fragmentation and Polarization of the Audience
Chapter 8 Information Democratization
Chapter 9 Online News and Public Affairs
Notes
References
Index