News in the Networked Era: an Analysis of Students’ News Consumption

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Taras S. Cherevko

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: сherevkot@gmail.com
Denis V. Dunas

PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: dunas.denis@smi.msu.ru
Anna V. Tolokonnikova

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Mass Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: a.tolokonnikova@mail.ru

Section: Sociology of Journalism

The present article focuses on the study into news consumption habits of students as active young Moscow residents. The authors analyze the behavior of internet users, examine the current notion of news and describe the trends in its consumption and filtering. This study is based on the data collected over two years, which enables the authors to reveal some patterns of news consumption by active new media users and identify the most significant channels of distributing news content.

Keywords: news, news resources, news consumption, media consumption on the Internet, social networks, online media
DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.1.2018.325

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