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Places for News: A Situated Study of Context in News Consumption

Authors : Yuval Cohen, Marios Constantinides, Paul Marshall

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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This paper presents a qualitative study of contextual factors that affect news consumption on mobile devices. Participants reported their daily news consumption activities over a period of two weeks through a snippet-based diary and experience sampling study, followed by semi-structured exit interviews. Wunderlist, a commercially available task management application and note-taking software, was appropriated for data collection. Findings highlighted a range of contextual factors that are not accounted for in current ‘contextually-aware’ news delivery technologies, and could be developed to better adapt such technologies in the future. These contextual factors were segmented to four areas: triggers, positive/conducive factors, negative/distracting factors and barriers to use.

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Title: Places for News: A Situated Study of Context in News Consumption
Authors: Yuval Cohen
Marios Constantinides
Paul Marshall
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29383-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-29384-0

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_5

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