Project Director

Guo, Zibin

Department Examiner

Bromley, Rebekah; Hampton, Bryan; Simmons, Charlene

Department

Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

As technology advances, creating new news mediums and changing old news mediums, consumers are bombarded with an increasingly diverse selection of news sources. News consumers choose news mediums based on their past experiences with these sources, so news reviewing behaviors formed during the college years typically endure to some degree for the rest of an individual's life. Studying the news consumption patterns of university students can help researchers predict future trends in news consumption behaviors. The goals of this project are to identify the weekly frequency of news reviewing among a selected sample population of students; to identify the main sources that the study population uses to review news; to identify the main factors contributing to the patterns of news reviewing among the study population; and to examine the relationship between the study population's news reviewing patterns and its level of awareness and perception of major social and political events at local, national, and international levels. This study suggests university students, regardless of demographics, prefer television to other news mediums. The research also suggests that males and females differ in their preference for the three levels of news, with females consuming equal amounts of local and national news and males preferring national news to local news.

Degree

B. S.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Date

3-2009

Subject

Information overload; Information behavior; Media literacy; Human information processing--Age factors

Discipline

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Document Type

Theses

Extent

v, 54 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.5 .G327 2009

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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