Purpose

News research scholars define immediacy as constant news updating, whereas scholars in other fields conceptualize it more broadly as meaning closeness. The present study explicates the concept of immediacy and proposes a multidimensional notion of news immediacy that reflects physical and psychological closeness to the news.

Design/methodology/approach

A scale for measuring multifaceted immediacy was developed and tested in a between-subjects design experiment. Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: transportation, involvement, vividness and timeliness.

Findings

The results reveal greater immediacy in online than print news contexts. Involvement is key to the experience of immediacy in both contexts; yet the feeling of being transported to the places of the news events was stronger among online than print news users. The latter relied more on vividness of the news presentation to attain closeness to the news.

Originality/value

Implications of the study were discussed.

中文翻译：

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即时新闻体验：在印刷和在线环境中探索其多个维度

目的

新闻研究学者将即时性定义为不断更新新闻，而其他领域的学者则将其更广泛地概念化为含义亲密。本研究阐述了即时性的概念，并提出了新闻即时性的多维概念，它反映了生理和心理上对新闻的亲近感。

设计/方法/方法

开发了一种用于衡量多方面即时性的量表，并在对象间设计实验中进行了测试。从分析中提取了四个方面：运输，参与，生动和及时。

发现

结果显示，与印刷新闻相比，在线新闻的即时性更高。在这两种情况下，参与都是即时体验的关键。然而，在网络上，被传送到新闻事件发生地的感觉比印刷新闻用户更强烈。后者更多地依靠新闻报道的生动性来获得与新闻的亲密关系。

创意/价值

讨论了该研究的意义。