Online News : The Evolution of Uses and Effects of News on the Web

ISBN-13: 9783836482721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 136 str.

Ester de Waal

Opis

This is a first-rate research project; it is comprehensive and thoroughly analyzed. It reports a multidimensional examination of the evolution and effects of Internet-based news sources. The author advances from an individual-level focus on the uses of online news and how the acquisition affects the use of other news media to an examination of social-level issues dealing with news learning and agenda setting. She addresses both the recent evolution of popular media use and the implications of those developments. The book greatly adds to our understanding of news. Its adds an important level of detail to existing analyses of media use and displacement, the natural survey setting complements the experimental context of prior research on audience learning and agenda development, and the studies reported here sensibly (though uniquely) explicitly distinguish between different types of news sites. The studies tell us quite a bit about how people choose among sites and how those choices may affect learning. This book is sure to substantially impact political communication research. David Tewksbury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

O autorze

Ester de Waal, PhD is assistant professor Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research and teaching interests include web usability, the evolution of online and printed news, media use displacement, new media learning effects and new news media & society.