How Millennials Get News
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How Millennials Get News
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#2The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media".
The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
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#3The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media". The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
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Re: How Millennials Get News
#4'Millenials don't read newspapers' - or, as I like to call it, 'Another article telling you what young people do sourced from every possible avenue other than asking young people'.
Under 30s are the biggest readers of the local newspapers at my university, and the same can be said for my routing train travel and visits around the area. Young people are using an amazingly diverse selection of news sources that many older generations are simplly unaware of, or unwilling to admit.
not to mention, i don't care who you ask, if you mix 'social action and entertainment' with news, the end result is something i would avoid like the plague.
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#5The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media". The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
Well, one thing to consider is that the "filter bubble" is relative, to a degree. We are talking about news, for a mainstream audience. So, the old fashioned alternative is perhaps reading a single physical newspaper, watching 1 or 2 tv news shows and perhaps listening to one radio station, all of similar political bent. Compared to that, the variance of view points among my Facebook friends is likely still higher, as is, say the one among commenters of /r/worldnews or HN.
It is a bubble, of course. Most or all my Facebook friends are from the same age, same few countries and more or less similar economic background. Twitter and Reddit have their particular leanings and dogma. So, there is definitely a "filter bubble" compared to "the sum total of world opinions". But I'd still argue that there are more view points in that filter bubble than in the editorial voices within the press of a given country targeting a particular political affiliation. Perhaps not as much as there should be, given the possibilities, but still...
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#6Let's be real here, national mainstream electronic media is somewhere between outright propaganda (yesterday's revelation and pictures of ISIS cross dressing soldiers retreating) and inane press release political fodder (sources in the White House report some BS that everyone knew anyway), and tabloid stuff.
In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings.
If you give a hoot about current events, the news isn't where you scratch that itch!
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#7'Millenials don't read newspapers' - or, as I like to call it, 'Another article telling you what young people do sourced from every possible avenue other than asking young people'. Under 30s are the biggest readers of the local newspapers at my university, and the same can be said for my routing train travel and visits around the area. Young people are using an amazingly diverse selection of news sources that many ol…
This isn't simply "another article" - its a significant study where they did exactly the opposite of what you described. They asked young people. Methodology is part of the OP [1].
You may very well have anecdotal evidence that millenials are reading newspapers, but this study seeks to move beyond anecdotal evidence.
[1] http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/s...
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#8'Millenials don't read newspapers' - or, as I like to call it, 'Another article telling you what young people do sourced from every possible avenue other than asking young people'. Under 30s are the biggest readers of the local newspapers at my university, and the same can be said for my routing train travel and visits around the area. Young people are using an amazingly diverse selection of news sources that many ol…
>Under 30s are the biggest readers of the local newspapers at my university
Given that under 30s are, by an order of magnitude, the largest population attending a university, I would hope they make up the majority of the newspaper reading population. Even if 1% of them read the paper, and every faculty member read the paper, they'd still easily outnumber.
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#9The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media". The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
They get their "diverse" opinions from an echo chamber. They really believe they get diversw opinions but they are actually from people with the same agenda.
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#10The one part I can't believe is that 86% of people think they're "Usually [seeing] diverse opinions through social media". The "filter bubble" is going to get worse and worse, it seems. Has anyone had any good experiences where a piece of information technology (forum, reddit, twitter, insta, etc) didn't encourage a filter bubble?
Well news.ycombinator.com is one that comes to my mind.