How We Consume News
The PEW Research Center just released a major study on how Americans consume news. The findings show that the cognition involved definitely involves opportunistic information foragaging across multiple sources.
“Some 46% of Americans say they get news from four to six media platforms on a typical day. Just 7% get their news from a single media platform on a typical day.”
Also of interest to cognitive designers is the finding that consumer do participate in the creation of the news but typically fall far short of citizen journalism. They create content by comments and reposting.
”37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.”
The report is loaded with findings on the psychographics of newsies. See for example, top reasons people follow the news. If you read the report and find other results relevant to cognitive design, please post a comment.
