TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boczkowski,Pablo J.
AU  - Mitchelstein,Eugenia
TI  - The news gap: when the information preferences of the media and the public diverge 
SN  - 9780262019835
AV  - PN 4784 .O62  B63 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Online journalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - News audiences
KW  - Journalismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Online-Medien
KW  - Publikumsforschung
KW  - Informationsnachfrage
KW  - Médias
KW  - eclas
KW  - Utilisateurs d'information
KW  - Internet
KW  - Edition électronique
KW  - Analyse sociologique
KW  - Public
KW  - Nyhetsförmedling på Internet
KW  - sao
KW  - Journalistik online
KW  - Periodismo electrónico
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Aspectos políticos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index; When supply and demand don't meet -- The divergence in the content choices of journalists and consumers -- The difference politics makes -- How storytelling matters -- Clicking on what's interesting, emailing what's bizarre or useful, and commenting on what's controversial -- The meaning of the news gap for media and democracy
N2  - "The sites of major media organizations--CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others--provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine this gap and consider the implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture. They show that it narrows in times of heightened political activity (including presidential elections or government crises) as readers feel compelled to inform themselves about public affairs but remains wide during times of normal political activity. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein also find that the gap is not affected by innovations in Web-native forms of storytelling such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Keeping the account of the news gap up to date, in the book's coda they extend the analysis through the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Drawing upon these findings, the authors explore the news gap's troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age."--Publisher's Web site
ER  -