I am a bit tired to look at millennials like different species.
If you want to know things about them - ask them...
How Millennials Get News
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Re: How Millennials Get News
#12'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…
@zwrose - they may be looking to move beyond anecdotal evidence but from what I took away they still seem to rely on the common perception that young people in general rely on technology/social media to the exclusion of traditional news media such as newspapers and news websites, this is what I was referring to.
@tw04 - UTS has a surprisingly high percentage of the student body over 30, there are many people taking technology courses or up-skilling through advanced courses as mature age students. Of this composite population, my observations are that the younger students rely more on traditional news media than the older ones, to the point of younger students actually reading a newspaper in a room full of 40-somethings on their phones. Quite entertaining to watch from a personal perspective
Re: How Millennials Get News
#13The reverse of this is of course baby boomer generations who hate what the news has become (TV and Newspaper) yet slavishly consume it anyway, because of a lifetime habit.
Whenever I see an older relative frothing about some stupid article in the newspaper, or some pointless piece on TV - I just say 'why not switch it off? Why buy the paper anyway?'
I don't watch the news or read newspapers anymore, unless I happen to be in the vicinity of either by accident. If something important happens, I find out. Everyone does. Neighbours, people you work with - they're always delighted to share news you didn't hear about, and they don't drop in ads.
In the case of TV news and newspapers - lets say 6 hours a week glued to the talking heads and 4 hours a week in the paper = 500 hours a year - 12 24hr days in total, or 24 12hr days. All so they can sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. Who wouldn't like 24 extra days time to do as they please with?
Stop paying attention to the media. You end up selling your time for pennies worth of benefit.
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#14The 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?
Judging by how many redditors whine about "the reddit circlejerk", it might not be as bad as that book you are alluding to thinks: each time I see someone complaining about a circlejerk, I infer that they really mean that they don't like that they feel they are the minority opinion.
Re: How Millennials Get News
#15'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…
@zwrose - they may be looking to move beyond anecdotal evidence but from what I took away they still seem to rely on the common perception that young people in general rely on technology/social media to the exclusion of traditional news media such as newspapers and news websites, this is what I was referring to. @tw04 - UTS has a surprisingly high percentage of the student body over 30, there are many people taking t…
When a common perception is supported by statistically significant evidence, it starts to be more fact than perception. That's the point I was making. They aren't relying on a perception - they've taken a good step toward proving that the perception is true.
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#16The 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, a…
Very much agree. When I was a kid I watched one (and only one) of the three network news channels, read The New York Times + the local paper, and that was about it--this was before the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, so talk radio hadn't yet metastasized. It was hard to get alternative opinions in either direction, even if you wanted to.
Compared to that social media is a cornucopia/vomitorium of diversity. Alternate opinions are easy to find and sometimes hard to escape.
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#17Interestingly they declined to define 'news' .. perhaps the study proper did, though it's such a nebulous term that it's probably moot in any case.
Facebook is cited as being a primary source of news, yet items that I see pop up in the 'news' block on FB are generally of the fashion, entertainment and asinine activities of alleged celebrities variety... not news by my definition.
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#18The 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?
Trolls cross the lines. "If you don't agree with the person who made this video why are you posting here?!?! Get a life troll!" Trolls is the heroes of the internet, the diversity.
The few, the proud, the unwilling to be quietly wrong in their own corner.
You need us. :)
Re: How Millennials Get News
#19The 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?
The CBS Evening News had a filter bubble too, it's just that everyone had the same filter bubble and his name was Walter Cronkite.
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#20'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…
I live outside a college town and I have also observed that virtually all the students read the college newspaper. In my travels I've witnessed the same thing at other schools.
If young people aren't reading newspapers then where is the disconnect that happens when they graduate? One thing that I have observed is that campus newspapers are more focused on nighttime events which is not covered very well if at all by our daily paper.
Anyone notice anything else?