The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge

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Pablo J. Boczkowski (Professor and Director, Northwestern University) Eugenia Mitchelstein (Professor, Universidad de San Andrés)

The News Gap

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When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge

Pablo J. Boczkowski (Professor and Director, Northwestern University), Eugenia Mitchelstein (Professor, Universidad de San Andrés)

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MIT Press
21 August 2015

Media studies; Press & journalism

Series: The MIT Press

An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age.

The websites 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 the divergence in preferences and consider its 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, and that it is not affected by innovations in forms of storytelling, such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Drawing upon these findings, they explore the news gap's troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.

By: Pablo J. Boczkowski (Professor and Director Northwestern University), Eugenia Mitchelstein (Professor, Universidad de San Andrés)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780262528269
ISBN 10: 0262528266
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 August 2015
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pablo J. Boczkowski is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Digitizing the News- Innovation in Online Newspapers, coauthor of The News Gap- When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge, and coeditor of Remaking the News- Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (all published by the MIT Press). Eugenia Mitchelstein is a PhD candidate in the Program in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University.