The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge

by Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski

Book Overview

An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age.

The websites of major media organizations--CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others--provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019833
• ISBN13: 9780262019835
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher