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News in a digital age : comparing the presentation of news information over time and across media platforms / Jennifer Kavanagh [and six others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavanagh, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and technology.
- Communication--Technological innovations.
- Communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, [2019]
- Summary:
- This report presents a quantitative assessment of how the presentation of news has changed over the past 30 years and how it varies across platforms.Over time, and as society moved from "old" to "new" media, news content has generally shifted from more-objective event- and context-based reporting to reporting that is more subjective, relies more.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
- The Changing Media Ecosystem
- News Presentation in a Digital Age: Past Research
- Limitations of Existing Work and Contributions of This Report
- Objective of This Report
- Outline of This Report
- CHAPTER TWO: Data and Methodology
- Data Collection
- Preparing the Data for Analysis
- Periodization and Comparisons
- Analysis
- CHAPTER THREE: Changes in Newspaper Reporting over Time
- Results
- Discussion
- CHAPTER FOUR: Differences in Television News
- CHAPTER FIVE: Comparing Print and Online Journalism
- CHAPTER SIX: Summary and Conclusions
- Print Journalism: Modest Shifts Toward More-Subjective Reporting
- Television News: Stronger Shifts to Subjectivity, Conversation, and Argument
- Online Journalism: Toward a Subjective Kind of Advocacy
- Implications for Truth Decay
- Limitations
- Next Steps: What Other Research Is Needed?.
- APPENDIXES
- A. About RAND-Lex
- B. Graphs from Subsample Analyses
- C. ANOVA Results
- References
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9774-0285-2
- OCLC:
- 1104084349
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