Articles By
Agata Stepnik
Research Note
How social media users get their news: The informational value of memes, hot takes, call outs, and comment threads during breaking events
Agata Stepnik and Joanne Gray
An increasing number of people globally say they avoid the news. But are they avoiding the news or the news media? In a longitudinal ethnographic study of Australian social media users, we repeatedly observed self-identified news avoiders encountering information about major news events, in the form of memes, hot takes, call outs, and comment threads.