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How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits
Digital Journalism ( IF 6.847 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 , DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2112519
Tim Groot Kormelink 1
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Abstract

This article uses the notion of habit to explore how news users adopt a new subscription into their everyday routines, and identifies facilitators and obstacles helping or inhibiting this process. Sixty-eight participants received a three-week newspaper trial subscription and were interviewed about their experiences afterward. Facilitators of repeated use were concurrent rewards; embedment into existing routines; and visual reminders. Obstacles were lack of steady routines; strong existing habits; perceived effort; disillusionment; and accessibility. Findings point to the importance of visibility: participants – even those with positive initial experiences – tended to forget their subscription. Visual cues were needed to remind participants to read their subscription: app icons, open browser tabs, social media posts, push notifications, and the print newspaper. Proactive implementation of these cues suggests participants themselves were also aware of their propensity to forget the subscription. Existing (news) habits either helped anchor use of the subscription or blocked it by being automatically cued up by context features. Results also point to a mental hurdle: having to muster up the cognitive and motivational energy to start reading the news. Finally, findings suggest that concurrently experienced rewards may be more conducive to news habit formation than retrospectively experienced rewards.



中文翻译:

人们如何将新闻整合到他们的日常生活中:以上下文为中心的新闻习惯方法

摘要

本文使用习惯的概念来探索新闻用户如何在他们的日常生活中采用新的订阅方式,并确定促进或阻碍这一过程的促进因素和障碍。68 名参与者收到了为期三周的报纸试用订阅,之后接受了关于他们体验的采访。重复使用的促进者是并发奖励;嵌入现有例程;和视觉提醒。障碍是缺乏稳定的惯例;强烈的现有习惯;感知努力;幻灭;和无障碍。调查结果表明可见性的重要性:参与者——即使是那些拥有积极初始体验的人——往往会忘记他们的订阅。需要视觉提示来提醒参与者阅读他们的订阅:应用程序图标、打开的浏览器选项卡、社交媒体帖子、推送通知和印刷报纸。主动实施这些提示表明参与者自己也意识到他们有忘记订阅的倾向。现有的(新闻)习惯要么有助于锚定订阅的使用,要么通过上下文功能自动提示来阻止订阅。结果还指出了一个心理障碍:必须鼓起认知和动力才能开始阅读新闻。最后,研究结果表明,同时经历的奖励可能比回顾性经历的奖励更有利于新闻习惯的形成。

更新日期:2022-09-23
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