TY - BOOK
T1 - A Public Conversation in Private Settings
T2 - Engaging with News across Media
AU - Ørmen, Jacob
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - News is a conversation that society carries with itself, about itself. People can access this conversation
through stories produced and distributed by news organizations, but they also have the ability to join and
contribute to the conversation themselves. It remains unclear how people actualize these potentials to
engage with news.
The thesis investigates this issue by developing a conceptualization of engagement as three interrelated
modes: attention, address, and awareness. These modes are studied empirically in a Danish context by
applying a mixed methods design, which combines large-scale national surveys, media-specific market data,
and semi-structured qualitative interviews.
Throughout the analyses and discussions, the thesis shows that Danes attend to news through old and new
media (attention), but prefer to not discuss news at all or only in face-to-face situations with friends and
family (address). At the same time, paying attention to news regularly across media and discussing news
with others proves to be essential for sustaining an informed and critical opinion of issues in society
(awareness).
Although opportunities to engage with news are in place, most Danes tend to follow the news at a distance
without presenting themselves in public. News as a public conversation primarily takes places in private
settings.
AB - News is a conversation that society carries with itself, about itself. People can access this conversation
through stories produced and distributed by news organizations, but they also have the ability to join and
contribute to the conversation themselves. It remains unclear how people actualize these potentials to
engage with news.
The thesis investigates this issue by developing a conceptualization of engagement as three interrelated
modes: attention, address, and awareness. These modes are studied empirically in a Danish context by
applying a mixed methods design, which combines large-scale national surveys, media-specific market data,
and semi-structured qualitative interviews.
Throughout the analyses and discussions, the thesis shows that Danes attend to news through old and new
media (attention), but prefer to not discuss news at all or only in face-to-face situations with friends and
family (address). At the same time, paying attention to news regularly across media and discussing news
with others proves to be essential for sustaining an informed and critical opinion of issues in society
(awareness).
Although opportunities to engage with news are in place, most Danes tend to follow the news at a distance
without presenting themselves in public. News as a public conversation primarily takes places in private
settings.
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - A Public Conversation in Private Settings
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
ER -