Current Conceptual Approaches to the Process of Young People’s Media Consumption of Online News

Section: Sociology of Journalism

The article considers the approaches to understanding the process of news production and consumption in the digital environment and, first and foremost, young people’s media consumption of online news and its effects on the audience in terms of civic culture, lifestyle and identity formation. The practices of young people, especially students, prove to be the markers of the changing trends in media consumption. Their study is important for understanding the current state of the ongoing media transformations. The article analyzes and systematizes the results of several researches, primarily researches into students’ media consumption, conducted by Russian and foreign scholars. The authors of the article propose not only to re-conceptualize the agenda-setting and gatekeeping theories, but also to rethink how online news changes young people’s notions of civic participation and generally forms a new type of civic culture and how media consumption of online news is related to the process of young people’s self-identification.

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