TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-Platform News Use and Political Participation Across Age Groups
T2 - Toward a Valid Metric of Platform Diversity and Its Effects
AU - Diehl, Trevor
AU - Barnidge, Matthew
AU - Gil de Zúñiga, Homero
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 AEJMC.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - News consumption in today’s media environment is increasingly characterized by reliance on multiple platforms: People now get their news from the web, television, radio, and various social media. Employing a nationally representative survey from the United States, this study develops an index of multi-platform news use. The index is validated by testing age group differences in the way people participate in politics. Results show that Millennials are more likely to rely on multiple platforms for news. Multi-platform news is also positively related to alternative modes of political engagement. Results are discussed in light of generational shifts in political behavior.
AB - News consumption in today’s media environment is increasingly characterized by reliance on multiple platforms: People now get their news from the web, television, radio, and various social media. Employing a nationally representative survey from the United States, this study develops an index of multi-platform news use. The index is validated by testing age group differences in the way people participate in politics. Results show that Millennials are more likely to rely on multiple platforms for news. Multi-platform news is also positively related to alternative modes of political engagement. Results are discussed in light of generational shifts in political behavior.
KW - age group differences
KW - hybrid media
KW - multi-platform news
KW - news use
KW - political engagement
KW - political participation
KW - social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059486245&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077699018783960
DO - 10.1177/1077699018783960
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059486245
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 96
SP - 428
EP - 451
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -