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What’s news? Encounters with news in everyday life: a study of behaviours and attitudes

Authors: Sally Jo Cunningham, David M. Nichols, Annika Hinze, Judy Bowen

Published in: International Journal on Digital Libraries | Issue 3/2016

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As the news landscape changes, for many users the nature of news itself is changing as well. Insights into the changing news behaviour of users can inform the design of access tools and news archives. We analysed a set of 35 autoethnographies of news encounters, created by students in New Zealand. These comprise rich descriptions of the news sources, modalities, topics of interest, and news ‘routines’ by which the students keep in touch with friends and maintain awareness of personal, local, national, and international events. We explore the implications of these insights into news behaviour for digital news systems.

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Title: What’s news? Encounters with news in everyday life: a study of behaviours and attitudes
Authors: Sally Jo Cunningham
David M. Nichols
Annika Hinze
Judy Bowen
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: International Journal on Digital Libraries / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1432-5012
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-016-0187-1

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