Mobile Devices Offer Little In-depth News: Sensational, Breaking and Entertainment News Dominate Mobile News Sites

The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when comp...

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Published inJournalism practice Vol. 13; no. 9; pp. 1106 - 1127
Main Authors Santana, Arthur D., Dozier, David M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 21.10.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Agenda building
Content analysis
mobile platforms
public affairs
story types
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Summary:The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news. Mobile devices on the mobile web also provide significantly less public affairs content as top stories. Analyzing a sample of 50 U.S. newspapers over a six-month period, this content analysis quantifies the heterogeneity of news content in print, online, and mobile platforms.
ISSN:1751-2786
1751-2794
DOI:10.1080/17512786.2019.1588144