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News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics) - Softcover

Book 2 of 49: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

Tewksbury, David; Rittenberg, Jason

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9780195391978: News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195391977 ISBN 13: 9780195391978
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of "news" have shifted and become blurred. News on the Internet synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptual map for understanding the way that public affairs and news are presented and consumed on the internet.

Tewksbury and Rittenberg look at the dual role of the internet as a source of authoritative news and as a vehicle for citizens in contemporary democracies to create and share political information. Throughout, they address the tension between the benefits of internet news provision, specifically increased citizen engagement, and the negative, perhaps counterintuitive, effects: the fragmentation of knowledge and polarization of opinion in contemporary democracies. News on the Internet focuses on these points of conflict and contradiction in the online news environment and offers conclusions and predictions for how these phenomena will develop in the future.

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About the Author

David Tewksbury is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jason Rittenberg is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195391977
ISBN 13 
9780195391978
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208
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