Tag: News

April 26, 2024

Patterns of News Consumption in a High-Choice Media Environment A Romanian Perspective

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Free Download Raluca Buturoiu, "Patterns of News Consumption in a High-Choice Media Environment: A Romanian Perspective "
English | ISBN: 3031419537 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Based on a Romanian case study, this book sheds light on the supply and demand of news and information in the current digital era, dominated by unprecedented dramatic changes. In addition to identifying patterns of journalistic reporting and news consumption, the book offers a thorough approach to how the classic theories in media and communication studies can be reinterpreted in the current attention economy and media abundance paradigm. The research data included in this book provide a snapshot of media consumption patterns and encompass experts’ views and predictions about how media habits and diets might evolve.

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April 26, 2024

Online News-Prompted Public Spheres in China

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Free Download Xuanzi Xu, "Online News-Prompted Public Spheres in China"
English | ISBN: 3031121554 | 2022 | 219 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news. It contends that these publics are chronic, although individually they are usually transient. They are networked, which enables them to go viral in hours, and they may engender unexpected consequences. These features explain why online public spheres survive in China even though censorship and information manipulation are pervasively and strategically maneuvered to guide or manufacture "public opinion". The book also proposes that there are deeply entangled structural factors bolstering China’s online news-prompted public spheres: the continuous flow of news information, the countless public spaces facilitated by China’s digital infrastructure and the rise of rights-conscious netizens. Pushing forward a new way of conceptualizing the idea of public spheres, this book contends clearly that public spheres are most often sparked by chronic news in today’s media-saturated societies. Delving into the life cycles of public spheres, it goes beyond static analysis of individual public spheres and instead studies their five qualities, which, except for the networked quality, have never been systematically addressed in scholarship.

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