The (non)use of likes, comments and shares of news in local online newspapers
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3053047Utgivelsesdato
2020Metadata
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This paper utilizes a nationally representative survey to gauge the
ways in which media users engage with their local newspapers by
using features that allow for sharing, liking, and commenting. The
main results indicate that significant predictors for different types
of news engagement vary, but that age and education emerge as
two of the more interesting varieties. Implications are discussed—
for instance, how both psychological and behavioral experiences
constitute the concept engagement and how our results challenge
the technology-optimistic argument that social media presence
on a newspaper website promotes audience engagement in the
journalistic process.