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 mediat...
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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 | usm-369542019-04-16T03:58:05Z http://eprints.usm.my/36954/ Experiencing the Digital News: The multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use Omar, Bahiyah Mustafa, Hasrina P87-96 Communication. Mass media 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. EDP Sciences 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/36954/1/%28Experiencing_the_Digital_News%29_shsconf_icome2017_00027.pdf Omar, Bahiyah and Mustafa, Hasrina (2017) Experiencing the Digital News: The multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use. SHS Web of Conferences , 33 (00027). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2261-2424 https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300027 |
| spellingShingle | P87-96 Communication. Mass media 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 | P87-96 Communication. Mass media |
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