Making Sense and Drawing Lines: Young adults and the mixing of news and entertainment. (3rd August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Edgerly, Stephanie
• Is Part Of: Journalism studies. Volume 18:Number 8(2017)
• Page Start: 1052
• Page End: 1069
• Publication Date: 2017-08-03
• Subjects: audience -- cable news -- entertainment -- hybrid media -- journalism -- news -- The Daily Show; Journalism -- Periodicals; 070.4
• DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1100522
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-670X

Abstract

Abstract : This study takes a closer look at the blurring of news and entertainment by examining how a sample of media users talk about various sources of current events information. Data from 21 in-depth interviews with young adults indicate that young adults do not hold a single notion of news and its relationship to entertainment. Rather, they draw from a variety of cultural resources at their disposal to either oppose or welcome the mixing of news and entertainment. A typology is developed to describe four distinct outlooks interviewees hold toward the value of news and whether it should be distinguished from entertainment.