Title
Structurally embedded news consumption on mobile news applications.
Abstract
This study uses a longitudinal dataset extracted from a mobile news application and adopts a multilevel design to examine the evolution of diversity of individuals’ news consumption and to identify the factors that underlie such evolution. A decreasing trend in news consumption diversity is observed among users. The news consumption diversity of individuals is positively related to global information diversity. Furthermore, the news consumption diversity of males exhibits a stronger tendency to be influenced by global information diversity than that of females. The decreasing trend in news consumption diversity is less remarkable among males than among females. This study complements traditional motivation-driven perspectives of news consumption by mining the structural antecedents of news consumption diversity and further emphasizes the social implications of mobile news technology. Lastly, practical implications and limitations are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.ipm.2017.04.009
Information Processing & Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile internet,News consumption,Diversity,Audience fragmentation
Mobile internet,Information retrieval,Advertising,Computer science,Mobile news,Global information,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
5
0306-4573
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lun Zhang131.42
Lu Zheng230.75
Tai-Quan Peng3747.82