News grazers, television news, political knowledge, and engagement

被引：19
|
作者：
Morris, Jonathan S.
Forgette, Richard
机构：
[1] E Carolina Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Greenville, NC 27858 USA
[2] Univ Mississippi, Dept Polit Sci, University, MS 38677 USA
来源：
HARVARD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS-POLITICS | 2007年 / 12卷 / 01期
关键词：
news grazers; television news; cable news; mass media;
D O I：
10.1177/1081180X06297122
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
This study examines the modern-day television "news grazer" in American politics. We define news grazers as those individuals who watch television news with remote control in hand and switch to another channel when an uninteresting topic comes up. Using survey data from the Pew Research Center, we find that news grazers differ significantly from nongrazers in news-gathering habits, political knowledge, and behavior. These effects remain significant even when controlling for other factors associated with news-grazing frequency, such as age and gender. The implications for the present and future of democratic political engagement are discussed.
引用
收藏
页码：91 / 107
页数：17
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [21] A Sadness Bias in Political News Sharing? The Role of Discrete Emotions in the Engagement and Dissemination of Political News on Facebook
    de Leon, Ernesto
    Trilling, Damian
    SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY, 2021, 7 (04):
  • [22] TELEVISION NEWS
    Krajina, Zlatan
    MEDIJSKE STUDIJE-MEDIA STUDIES, 2010, 1 (1-2): : 211 - 214
  • [23] NEWS VALUES IN SLOVAK TELEVISION NEWS
    Gregus, Lubos
    Minarikova, Julina
    Communication Today, 2016, 7 (02): : 78 - 88
  • [24] Pluralism and political parallelism in Spanish television news programmes
    Humanes, M. L.
    Montero Sanchez, M. D.
    Molina de Dios, R.
    Lopez-Berini, A.
    REVISTA LATINA DE COMUNICACION SOCIAL, 2013, 68 : 566 - 581
  • [25] A Political Economy of the Emerging Television News Industry in Bangladesh
    Rahman, Anis
    EPTIC, 2009, 11 (02):
  • [26] DENIGRATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TELEVISION NEWS - ECOLOGY ISSUE
    PRIDE, RA
    RICHARDS, B
    WESTERN POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 1975, 28 (04): : 635 - 645
  • [27] THE CONTINGENCIES OF ORDINARY CITIZEN APPEARANCES IN POLITICAL TELEVISION NEWS
    Hopmann, David Nicolas
    Shehata, Adam
    JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 2011, 5 (06) : 657 - 671
  • [28] TELEVISION AND THE NEWS
    BRANTLINGER, P
    COLLEGE ENGLISH, 1982, 44 (05) : 475 - 482
  • [29] How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement
    Toff, Benjamin
    Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis
    POLITICAL COMMUNICATION, 2022, 39 (06) : 697 - 714
  • [30] The creation of political news television and British party political conferences.
    Law, J
    MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY, 2002, 24 (05) : 726 - 727
12345