Implications of urbanism for the use of local news media: Effects of population concentration on types of news acquisition in Japan
Implications of urbanism for the use of local news media: Effects of population concentration on types of news acquisition in Japan
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城市化对当地新闻媒体使用的影响：人口集中对日本新闻获取类型的影响
DOI：
10.1080/1369118x.2016.1140803
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2016
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Kitamura;S.
互联网是一个全球性的计算机网络，使人们能够在世界任何地方发送和接收信息，它也是一种地方通信媒介。本研究的重点是互联网在传播当地新闻的作用，并探讨社区人口集中的社会生态环境对使用当地新闻媒体消费的在线和离线的影响。来自156个日本社区的1367名受访者的数据被用来分析社区类型和新闻源类型之间的关系。调查结果表明，居住在人口稠密社区的人更倾向于使用互联网获取当地新闻，而居住在人口较少社区的人则倾向于使用更传统的大众媒体。然而，本研究的结果并没有显示出社区内的人口集中和国际新闻的获取之间的关系，也没有充分解释人口集中对当地新闻的获取的影响居民的社会特征。这些结果与基于网络外部性、城市化和集体行动的理论预测相一致。研究结果表明，当地新闻消费是嵌入在当地的社会背景的方式，国际新闻是不是，加强信息时代的城市化的重要性。
The Internet, a global computer network enabling people to send and receive information anywhere in the world, also functions as a local medium of communication. This study focuses on the role of the Internet in transmitting local news and examines the effects of community population concentrations as socio-ecological environments on the use of local news media consumed online and offline. Data from 1367 respondents across 156 Japanese communities were used to analyze the relationships between type of community and type of news source. The findings suggest that people who live in highly populated communities tend more often to use the Internet to access local news, whereas those in less populated communities tend to use more traditional mass media. However, the results of this study did not show a relationship between population concentrations within communities and the acquisition of international news, nor did the social features of residents adequately explain the effects of population concentration on the acquisition of local news. These results are consistent with theoretical predictions based on network externalities, urbanism, and collective action. The findings indicate that local news consumption is embedded in local social contexts in a way that international news is not, reinforcing the importance of urbanism in the information age.