Digital Audiences and Evolving News Repertoires

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Abstract

In recent decades, several concepts have been developed and deployed to explain people’s changing relationship with news. One such term, which has found increasing resonance, is the idea of news repertoires. This holistic concept builds on the idea that as people navigate the media ecology they live in, they regularly use a variety of media – including but not limited to journalism – in order to meaningfully fulfill diverse needs for information, awareness, and amusement in everyday life. This chapter gives an overview of key shifts around news repertoires, arguing why it is important to understand media use relationally, and what this means for journalism research. It delineates the development of the concept and literature in terms of changing patterns, practices, and vernaculars due to digital technologies and the sociocultural and emotional forces impacting how news repertoires form. Journalism studies is arguably at its most convincing when it offers explanations on the ‘big’ global issues of the day and the idea of repertoires helps advance such research by explicating to what extent different forms, genres, platforms, and flows of news and information matter to different publics—in what ways, under what conditions and contexts—and what causes such orientations to change.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelRoutledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
RedaktørerScott Eldridge II, David Cheruiyot, Sandra Banjac, Joelle Swart
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagRoutledge
Udgave2nd
StatusAccepteret/In press - mar. 2023

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