TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating the news seeking behaviour of young adults
AU - Qayyum, Muhammad Asim
AU - Williamson, Christina
AU - Liu, Ying-Hsang
AU - Hider, Philip
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = September 2010; Journal title (773t) = Australian Academic and Research Libraries. ISSNs: 0004-8623;
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - This study investigated the news-seeking and browsing behaviours of young adults, partly in the context of everyday life information seeking (ELIS), in order to explore their perceptions of and attitudes towards print and online news media. The study is significant because traditional print newspapers face a steady decline in their readership with the growth of free online content. Therefore, it is important to understand the online news-seeking behaviours of young adults to try and predict changes and trends in this field. A qualitative (interpretivist) approach was adopted and twenty university students were interviewed. Findings indicate that, contrary to expectations, print newspapers were still favoured by young people in this sample and the most successful online news disseminators were the ones who have attached themselves to a popular website. Finally, the impact of newspaper reading and publishing trends on library reading rooms is also discussed.
AB - This study investigated the news-seeking and browsing behaviours of young adults, partly in the context of everyday life information seeking (ELIS), in order to explore their perceptions of and attitudes towards print and online news media. The study is significant because traditional print newspapers face a steady decline in their readership with the growth of free online content. Therefore, it is important to understand the online news-seeking behaviours of young adults to try and predict changes and trends in this field. A qualitative (interpretivist) approach was adopted and twenty university students were interviewed. Findings indicate that, contrary to expectations, print newspapers were still favoured by young people in this sample and the most successful online news disseminators were the ones who have attached themselves to a popular website. Finally, the impact of newspaper reading and publishing trends on library reading rooms is also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/00048623.2010.10721462
DO - 10.1080/00048623.2010.10721462
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-8623
VL - 41
SP - 178
EP - 191
JO - Australian Academic and Research Libraries
JF - Australian Academic and Research Libraries
IS - 3
ER -