The study focuses on ‘News Finds Me’ perception, i.e. the belief that users can stay informed enough without actively following traditional news media while relying on social media and personal contacts. The text analyses ...

Even democracies endowed with the most active free press struggle to maintain diversity of news coverage. Consolidation and market forces may cause only a few dominant players to control the news cycle. Editorial policies ...

This exploratory study examines how participants incidentally consumed news on social media through an eye tracking analysis of their visual interaction with posts on Facebook. By interaction, we refer to the attention ...

This study focuses on three contemporary alternative users’ attitudes to news previously detetected in the literature: ‘News finds me’, ‘The information is out there’ and ‘I don’t know what to be-lieve. It analyzes the ...

News media outlets disseminate information across various platforms. Often, these posts present complementary content and perspectives on the same news story. However, to compile a set of related news articles, users must ...

This article considers whether 'sensational' news stories are intrinsically more likely to elicit emotional responses in audiences than other TV news stories. The research analyses a sample of British televised news in ...

Audiences play a fundamental role in disseminating and evaluating news content, and one of the big questions facing news organizations is what elements make content viral in the digital environment. This comparative study ...