Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-146). Also available via the World Wide Web.

With the diffusion of smartphones in the United States, the news industry is trying to turn this mobile innovation into an effective vehicle for delivering news anytime, anywhere. But does smartphone adoption mean news consumption via smartphones? To provide insight to this question, a national Web-based survey was conducted to explore smartphone adopters vs. non adopter, smartphone news consumers vs. non-consumers, and younger vs. older smartphone news consumers. Smartphone adopters were younger, had higher household incomes, and used news media more often than smartphone non-adopters. Most of the smartphone adopters primarily used their phones as an interpersonal communication device. Unlike smartphone adopters, smartphone news consumers were more likely to be male. Similar to smartphone adopters, they were younger and used news media more often than non-consumers of smartphone news. Moreover, smartphone news consumers used portal news sites more than newspaper, television, or social networking sites. As such, they also expressed higher satisfaction with portal news sites. A complementary relationship was found between smartphone news and traditional and online news media. Predictors of smartphone adoption included age and social pressure; predictors of adopting smartphones for news included news interest, gender, education, and income. In addition, news interest was a significant predictor for the amount of time users spent on smartphone news, while age, income and news interest were significant predictors for the number of times (frequency) users accessed news via smartphones. Even though younger smartphone news consumers showed lower news interests and used traditional news media less often than older smartphone news consumers, they did not spend any less time or access different kinds of news topics any less than their older counterparts. More of the younger than older smartphone news consumers followed health and fitness, science and technology, and entertainment news. / text

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2006. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-119). Also available online.

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News aggregation is a developing form of professional journalism practice, one uniquely adapted to contemporary communication realities. News companies have always gathered content from a variety of sources when producing their products. However, the sheer volume of information, number of participants and speed of consumption online requires news workers to adopt new routines of collecting and disseminating information. These routines, some argue, fundamentally differ from the beat structure of traditional journalism. As recent ethnographic work has found, online news workers might value a sense of audience and newsworthiness over and above norms like objectivity and getting a good story (Anderson, 2013; Agarwal & Barthel, 2013). As economic pressures continue to strain resources and shrink the number of reporters on staff, news aggregation, both as a practice and a digital filtering tool, is becoming a staple of modern newsrooms. Few researchers have explored the impact of these divergent routines on content. Through a secondary data analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2012 News Coverage Index, this thesis examines the topics and news-drivers in 12 US news websites. The analysis finds that in-house, so-called “original reporting” tends to rely on institutional actors and hard news topics. When stories are aggregated from a third-party source, soft news topics and celebrity stories are preferred. Finally, different professional practices seem to be favored depending on the type of online news organization. The findings suggest scholars, and those interested in journalism education, think of organizational pressures and professional norms as fluid online, particularly when connecting theories of news work to output in terms of content. / text

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<p><p>I denna uppsats behandlas vetenskapliga kategoriseringar av nyheter, närmare bestämt de två kategorierna hard news och soft news. Utifrån tre akademiska texter presenteras definieringar, värderingar och betänkanden som författarna till dessa texter gjort. Utgångspunkten för problematiseringen av nyhetskategoriseringarna har varit att belysa saken från ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv. Ett försök till detta har gjorts med dels en relativt allmän genomgång av socialkonstruktionismens grundprinciper, formulerade av Marianne Winther Jørgensen & Louise Philips, och dels med en fördjupning i den socialkonstruktionistiska grenen diskursteori såsom den formuleras av Michel Foucault. Utifrån detta görs en analys av de tre texterna utifrån hur de används för att etablera tolkningsföreträden och rättfärdiga de olika definieringarna, värderingarna och betänkandena som författarna lägger fram. Avslutningsvis förs en diskussion om det forskningsmässiga läget beträffande hard news och soft news.</p></p> / -

Thesis (M.A.)--Zheng da. / Reproduces from typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 72).