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In search of a better understanding of young people's news media consumption in a European high-media environment, this study analysed the role of uses and gratifications motivations in driving time spent with television news, newspapers, and online news sites, while controlling for the effects of possible influential socio-demographics. Our findings confirmed that the need to get information about the world or one's environment is the strongest uses and gratifications predictor for time spent on television news, newspapers, and online news sites. Nevertheless, young people's news consumption is also driven by 'diversion' needs. Especially television news, which young people also watch to escape from the daily routine or to be entertained. One of the conclusions we can draw from these results is that traditional and online news platforms, although serving some needs that are mutually exclusive, overall are being consulted in search of the same gratifications, respectively information/surveillance and diversion gratifications. Nevertheless, the use of online news was not found to diminish the use of traditional news platforms. On the contrary, we found that the use of television news enhanced the use of online news and vice versa. These findings confirm young people's complementary use of traditional and online news platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assesses the information and communication technologies in multicultural society. Patterns of media consumption; Internet in minority identity construction and perception; Role of the media in the development and perception of identity.

The article presents information on the papers published in a special issue of the "Gazette: The International Journal for Communications Studies," presenting research on media frames. This special issue is an attempt to take stock of the well-documented procedures entailing news selection and production. This particular research strand, which finds its origins in the all too well known fact that the media merely represent a very limited selection of reality, which is nonetheless perceived by many citizens as the one and only reality. All five articles in this special issue deal with the media texts in their contexts primarily: journalists' frames that have become media frames are identified in concrete media output. A frame can be defined as a consistent bundle of schemata, which emerges in discourse, exchanges with other discourses and influences information processing. The different media systems, journalistic practices and time periods covered are perceived here as the equally varied contextual ways of mapping out journalists' cognition on issues.

Editorial. Focuses on the role of mass media in Indonesia.

The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunity to examine the role played by social media in a social movement. This survey of 967 ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) minorities living in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany focuses on attitudes and behaviors alongside uses of offline and online networks to make connections with others during and after Gezi. We investigate whether the respondents living in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital. We also examine whether the social capital already built through lives spent in Europe, where connections to majority populations had been forged, was at least temporarily reversed through a process of re-bonding, as ethnic minorities turned their attention and loyalty to the social movement in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]