Introduction -- Shifting audiences -- Offline and online news content -- News specialization and segmentation -- Selecting news online -- Learning from online news -- Fragmentation and polarization of the audience -- Information democratization -- Online news and public affairs
Summary
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of "news" have shifted and become blurred. News on the Internet synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptua
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
