TY - JOUR
T1 - The efficacy of news browsing
T2 - The relationship of news consumption style to social and political efficacy
AU - Tewksbury, David
AU - Hals, Michelle L.
AU - Bibart, Allyson
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Research on audience uses of news media points to the presence of two basic types of audience news gathering processes: information browsing - choosing a range of news topics when using the media - and information selecting - limiting news consumption to a few specific topics. This study examines antecedents and normatively important consequences of these behavior patterns. The study shows that news browsing is associated with relative emphasis on a medium for news. Newspaper browsing predicts the variety of topics about which people feel they are informed, their social self-efficacy, and their internal political efficacy.
AB - Research on audience uses of news media points to the presence of two basic types of audience news gathering processes: information browsing - choosing a range of news topics when using the media - and information selecting - limiting news consumption to a few specific topics. This study examines antecedents and normatively important consequences of these behavior patterns. The study shows that news browsing is associated with relative emphasis on a medium for news. Newspaper browsing predicts the variety of topics about which people feel they are informed, their social self-efficacy, and their internal political efficacy.
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U2 - 10.1177/107769900808500203
DO - 10.1177/107769900808500203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:54749100457
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 85
SP - 257
EP - 272
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -