RT Journal Article
T1 Mind the Gap! Journalism on Social Media and News Consumption Among Young Audiences
A1 Vázquez Herrero, Jorge
A1 Negreira Rey, María Cruz
A1 Sixto García, José
K1 Audience studies
K1 Social media
K1 Young people
K1 News sharing
K1 News providers
K1 News use
K1 Journalism
AB Social media have become the main gateway to information for young people, helping to determine and shape the young’s visions of the present, which is also conditioned by news sharing among users. News media are tasked with remaining relevant to these young audiences and are trying to reach the places where they are digitally most active. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, two perspectives were analyzed in this study. The first was the news use on social media of young Spanish, French, and British people (N = 1,528) aged 18–25. The second was the content dissemination strategies implemented within social networking sites by the 30 most consumed media in these European countries. The results confirm the pre-eminence of social media as channels of information and as alternatives to traditional media, with distributed, incidental consumption throughout the day. Meanwhile, the news media are implementing strategies to get integrated into the platforms that most engage new audiences
PB University of Southern California
SN 1932-8036
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40028
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40028
LA eng
NO Vázquez-Herrero, J., Negreira-Rey, M., & Sixto-García, J. (2022). Mind the Gap! Journalism on Social Media and News Consumption Among Young Audiences. International Journal Of Communication, 16. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19643
NO This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain) and the ERDF structural fund (PID2021-122534OB-C21). The authors would like to thank the journalists for their collaboration in this study
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026