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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29352| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions : a mixed methods study |
| Authors: | Klopfenstein Frei, Nadine Wyss, Valery Weber, Wibke |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141 10.21256/zhaw-29352 |
| Published in: | Journal of Children and Media |
| Volume(Issue): | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page(s): | 120 |
| Pages to: | 137 |
| Issue Date: | 1-Dec-2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1748-2798 1748-2801 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | News consumption behavior; Adolescent; Media environment; Access; Regulation; News literacy; Transition; Digitaler Journalismus; Nachrichtenkosumverhalten; Media Literacy; Medienumgebung |
| Subject (DDC): | 070: News media, journalism and publishing 305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) |
| Abstract: | Several media studies have investigated the news consumption of young people and discussed where they get information and what motivates them to consume news. Little is known about the structural factors that influence young people’s news consumption behavior. The aim of this paper is to fill this research gap by focusing on structural factors that play a major role in young people’s news consumption. In a mixed-methods study, we investigated Swiss youth media behavior in news consumption from 2019 to 2020 in Switzerland. The results show that news consumption of people aged 12–20 is determined by three structural factors at home and outside: 1. access to media and internet; 2. regulation by parents and teachers, and 3. routines at home or school. These three factors shape the individual media environment and are related to young people’s news consumption behavior. Changes in news consumption behavior were evident in school transitions where young people not only change teachers and get a new peer group but are often involved in a change of location. These changes can be normative transitions which have an influence on the structural factors of the individual media environment and thus influence the news consumption behavior of young people. |
| Further description: | Impact Summary Prior State of Knowledge: Young Swiss people consume news via their smartphones, which are offered to them through news portals, various apps, or via social media feeds, on which they usually come across news by chance and consume it casually in their free time. Novel Contributions: Structural factors of media environments (i.e., access, regulation, and news consumption routines) play a major role in young people’s news consumption. These structural factors can be influenced by parents, teachers, and peers. Practical Implications: For schools in particular, the paradigm that emerges from these findings is to reduce barriers to accessing news content and to rethink certain regulations, and to make recommendations and establish routines that encourage young people to consume news. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29352 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | Schweizer Digital Natives mit Nachrichten erreichen. Eine qualitative Studie |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Klopfenstein Frei, N., Wyss, V., & Weber, W. (2023). Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions : a mixed methods study. Journal of Children and Media, 18(1), 120–137. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141
Klopfenstein Frei, N., Wyss, V. and Weber, W. (2023) ‘Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions : a mixed methods study’, Journal of Children and Media, 18(1), pp. 120–137. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141.
N. Klopfenstein Frei, V. Wyss, and W. Weber, “Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions : a mixed methods study,” Journal of Children and Media, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 120–137, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141.
KLOPFENSTEIN FREI, Nadine, Valery WYSS und Wibke WEBER, 2023. Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions : a mixed methods study. Journal of Children and Media. 1 Dezember 2023. Bd. 18, Nr. 1, S. 120–137. DOI 10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141
Klopfenstein Frei, Nadine, Valery Wyss, and Wibke Weber. 2023. “Factors Influencing Young People’s News Consumption in Switzerland during Normative Transitions : A Mixed Methods Study.” Journal of Children and Media 18 (1): 120–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141.
Klopfenstein Frei, Nadine, et al. “Factors Influencing Young People’s News Consumption in Switzerland during Normative Transitions : A Mixed Methods Study.” Journal of Children and Media, vol. 18, no. 1, Dec. 2023, pp. 120–37, https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2278141.
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