Seeking the Audience for News: Response, News Talk, and Everyday Practices

The Handbook of Media Audiences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 489-508

  Bird, S Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic interest in news habit long history, before Carey to Berelson's classic study of "what missing the newspaper means"; Both newspaper reading and TV news viewing declining, younger generations abandoning both, turning to the Internet; Direct audience response to news attention more toward audience practices around news; Ethnographic audience studies flourishing in domain of cultural studies; News as a cultural phenomenon; News audience in the digital world learning about what the news habit means for new generations; News in everyday life and the news habit; Newspaper readership declining, news habit dying habits changing with media, but the need to stay connected, not so; Seeking the audience for news response, news talk and everyday practices; Study of news reading as a habit or a practice way to approach role of news in everyday life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861549780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340525.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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