Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use
The term media experience is seldom defined explicitly by communication and media scholars. Most often, it refers to media use and the feeling (such as enjoyment) resulted from the use.To fill this void, the present study turns to presence studies which espouse the idea of being there in mediated en...
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| description | The term media experience is seldom defined explicitly by communication and media scholars. Most often, it refers to media use and the feeling (such as enjoyment) resulted from the use.To fill this void, the present study turns to presence studies which espouse the idea of being there in mediated environment.As online news use involves a kind of mediated experience, this study adopts the existing measure of presence to determine the multiple dimensions of online news experience.A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to establish the dimensions of the experience in this exploratory study.Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: para-social interaction, transportation, absorption and social realism.The study found that online news users were experiencing beyond ordinary description; they interacted with the news, absorbed in the
narrative world, and to certain extent felt that they were being transported into such world and also experienced the realism that the news stories tend to convey.Implications for understanding the experience in news media use from presence perspective are discussed. |
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| spelling | uum-209102017-02-12T03:12:59Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20910/ Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use Omar, Bahiyah Mustafa, Hasrina P Philology. Linguistics The term media experience is seldom defined explicitly by communication and media scholars. Most often, it refers to media use and the feeling (such as enjoyment) resulted from the use.To fill this void, the present study turns to presence studies which espouse the idea of being there in mediated environment.As online news use involves a kind of mediated experience, this study adopts the existing measure of presence to determine the multiple dimensions of online news experience.A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to establish the dimensions of the experience in this exploratory study.Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: para-social interaction, transportation, absorption and social realism.The study found that online news users were experiencing beyond ordinary description; they interacted with the news, absorbed in the narrative world, and to certain extent felt that they were being transported into such world and also experienced the realism that the news stories tend to convey.Implications for understanding the experience in news media use from presence perspective are discussed. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20910/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%206x.pdf Omar, Bahiyah and Mustafa, Hasrina (2017) Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use. In: International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), 18th - 20th September 2016, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300027 doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300027 doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173300027 |
| spellingShingle | P Philology. Linguistics Omar, Bahiyah Mustafa, Hasrina Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title | Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title_full | Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title_fullStr | Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title_short | Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use |
| title_sort | experiencing the digital news the multiple dimensions of users experience in news media use |
| topic | P Philology. Linguistics |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20910/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%206x.pdf |
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