Moving beyond ''Just the Facts'' : The Influence of Online News on the Content and Structure of Public Affairs Knowledge  

Oleh:

Eveland, William P. (Jr.) ; Marton, Krisztina ; Seo, Mihye

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Communication Research vol. 31 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 82-108.
Topik: schema; expertise; sophistication; WWW; Internet; learning
Fulltext: Vol 31, no 1, page 82-108.pdf (503.79KB)

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The increasing use of online news, particularly by young Americans, points to the importance of understanding what users learn from this form of news and whether features of online news encourage or discourage various types of learning. This experimental study demonstrates that online news that takes advantage of one of the key characteristics of the Web—the use of in-text hyperlinks—may actually discourage learning of the facts that make up many news stories. But this same linking structure apparently encourages those who commonly use the Web to have more densely interconnected knowledge structures for public affairs topics. However, those who rarely use the Web for news do not gain such advantages and may even suffer disadvantages. These findings point to limitations in most past online news learning research, which has been limited to “just the facts” in its measurement of learning from the news.

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