156<strong>Comunicar</strong>, <strong>39</strong>, XX, 2012media used or willingness to pay) point out, men consumemore information than women yet womenTable 6: Degree of interest in information (on a scale of 0 to10).declare a greater interest in news than men. The differenceis small, 7.57 against 7.43 (Table 6), but noteworthy,and something similar occurs with regard tothe civic importance attributed to news (Table 7).Young people also place a high civic value oninformation. On a scale of 0 to 10, young people givean average 8.2 to the fact that being well-informedenables you to participate in politics and be a good citizen(Table 7).Young people acknowledge that theavailability of news is important for democracy andinformation enables and guarantees public debate andthe development of a civic consciousness. Being wellinformedis to be a fully active and responsible citizen,and news plays an important role in the civic and politicalsocialization of young people (Romer, Jamieson& Pasek, 2009); young people have a positive conceptof news, and although they are turning their backs onconventional media, they continue to value information.5. Discussion and conclusionsThe results allow us to verify the two hypothesespresented at the beginning of this article. The datademonstrate that young people’s news consumption isoriented towards new media, especially social networks,while newspaper readership among youngpeople is in decline (H1). As a consequence, newspapersare no longer the primary source of information inthe digital context (Lipani, 2008), which does notmean that the appetite for news among young peoplehas diminished, quite the contrary, interest in informationis strong and news consumption scores highly as acivic value (H2).The data also reveal the diversity of news sourcesconsulted to get information. News consumption isnow a multiple media habit; each medium has a differentlevel of prominence with news content subject tothe effects of multiplatform distribution and the syn -chronic consumption habits ofa younger generation able toperform various media activitiessimultaneously thanks totheir multitasking skills (Micó,2012; Van Dijk, 2006).The data also reveal the deep-rooted habit of costfreenews access among the young. This is a seriousproblem for the paid-formedia, and newspapers inparticular, as it seriously affectsthe business model (Casero-Ripollés, 2010).This investigation verifiesthe effect of age regarding young people and news.The frequency of information consumption and interestin news increase as younger readers mature. Thegreat unresolved question for newspapers is whetherthis increase in news consumption will be enough toguarantee a minimum readership in the future, a questioncurrently posed by many authors (Huang, 2009;Lauf, 2001).The genre variable reveals a paradox in that menconsume more news but women value informationmore positively in terms of interest and civic impor -tance.The results of this survey also throw up new questionsconcerning young people’s consumption of informationthat will require further investigation. The twomajor questions are: the transformation in news consumptionarising from young people’s preference forsocial networks as information media. Many authorspoint out that information consumption on the Internetis no longer a preferential activity because young peoplerarely search for news in an active way (Qayyum& al., 2010), rather they access it if the news storyattracts their attention while they surf the Net. Insteadof a deliberate, consious, routine search, news consumptionhas changed and is now based on chanceand coincidence (Patterson, 2007). This results fromthe way young people use the Internet; just as they usethe Internet for social interaction (Carlsson, 2001) andentertainment (Vanderbosch, Dhoets & Van derBulck, 2009), they also use this technology in a recreational(Tully, 2008) and utilitarian way (Rubio,2010), and so information loses its prominence. Thishas enormous consequences for newspaper distributorsand the rest of the news media.The second question relates to changes in theconception of news among young people. The resultssuggest that this is due to the emergence of a conceptionof news as public service rather than product, al -Table 7: Level of importance given to the fact that being well-informed enables participation inpolitics and being a good citizen (on a scale of 0 to 10).© ISSN: 1134-3478 • e-ISSN: 1988-3293• Pages 151-158
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