Online News

This is a first-rate research project; it is
comprehensive and thoroughly analyzed. It reports a
multidimensional examination of the evolution and
effects of Internet-based news sources. The author
advances from an individual-level focus on the uses
of online news and how the acquisition affects the
use of other news media to an examination of social-
level issues dealing with news learning and agenda
setting. She addresses both the recent evolution of
popular media use and the implications of those
developments. The book greatly adds to our
understanding of news. Its adds an important level
of detail to existing analyses of media use and
displacement, the natural survey setting complements
the experimental context of prior research on
audience learning and agenda development, and the
studies reported here sensibly (though uniquely)
explicitly distinguish between different types of
news sites. The studies tell us quite a bit about
how people choose among sites and how those choices
may affect learning. This book is sure to
substantially impact political communication
research. David Tewksbury, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Autorentext
Ester de Waal, PhD is assistant professor Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research and teaching interests include web usability, the evolution of online and printed news, media use displacement, new media learning effects and new news media & society.