I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge
With the advent of the internet, the news media landscape has changed drastically. As learning from news is fundamental to a functional democracy, we need to consider how online media has changed news consumption and learning from it. Through an online survey in Singapore (n=734), this paper revisit...
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| author | Monteiro, Kenan Joseph Loy, Guan Peng Lua, Ker Hian |
| author2 | Edson C. Tandoc Jr. |
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| description | With the advent of the internet, the news media landscape has changed drastically. As learning from news is fundamental to a functional democracy, we need to consider how online media has changed news consumption and learning from it. Through an online survey in Singapore (n=734), this paper revisits the cognitive mediation model and proposes to advance it in two ways: accounting for two types of online news exposure, i.e., active news seeking (ANS) and incidental news exposure (INE), and measuring three knowledge outcomes: factual knowledge, perceived knowledge, and overestimation. Serial mediation analysis showed that ANS and news attention mediate the impact of surveillance gratification on factual knowledge. In terms of perceived knowledge and overestimation of knowledge, the impact of surveillance gratification is fully mediated in two pathways: by ANS, attention and elaboration, as well as by INE and elaboration surveillance gratification, ANS, attention and elaboration, as well as INE and elaboration This paper calls to attention the influence that news exposure types have on the acquisition of knowledge from news, and highlights how it contributes to individuals overestimating how much they actually know. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1652972023-03-26T15:35:04Z I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge Monteiro, Kenan Joseph Loy, Guan Peng Lua, Ker Hian Edson C. Tandoc Jr. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information edson@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models With the advent of the internet, the news media landscape has changed drastically. As learning from news is fundamental to a functional democracy, we need to consider how online media has changed news consumption and learning from it. Through an online survey in Singapore (n=734), this paper revisits the cognitive mediation model and proposes to advance it in two ways: accounting for two types of online news exposure, i.e., active news seeking (ANS) and incidental news exposure (INE), and measuring three knowledge outcomes: factual knowledge, perceived knowledge, and overestimation. Serial mediation analysis showed that ANS and news attention mediate the impact of surveillance gratification on factual knowledge. In terms of perceived knowledge and overestimation of knowledge, the impact of surveillance gratification is fully mediated in two pathways: by ANS, attention and elaboration, as well as by INE and elaboration surveillance gratification, ANS, attention and elaboration, as well as INE and elaboration This paper calls to attention the influence that news exposure types have on the acquisition of knowledge from news, and highlights how it contributes to individuals overestimating how much they actually know. Bachelor of Communication Studies 2023-03-23T06:23:44Z 2023-03-23T06:23:44Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Monteiro, K. J., Loy, G. P. & Lua, K. H. (2023). I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165297 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165297 en SCI/22/031 application/pdf application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models Monteiro, Kenan Joseph Loy, Guan Peng Lua, Ker Hian I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title | I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title_full | I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title_fullStr | I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title_full_unstemmed | I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title_short | I seek, therefore I know? The impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| title_sort | i seek therefore i know the impact of active news seeking and incidental news exposure on news knowledge |
| topic | Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165297 |
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