Media Consumption Patterns Research Articles

News Diffusion After the Assassination of a Neighbour

In this article, data about the diffusion of news in Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Finland following the assassination of Olof Palme are presented. Special attention is given to the relation between diffusion patterns and media consumption patterns, and the relation between the importance of an event and the amount of personal communication in the diffusion process. It is argued that the significance of these two relations change with different cases of diffusion. They should therefore be interpreted as measures which reveal unique features about individual cases of news diffusion.

Mass Media Use by Sub-Elites in 11 Latin American Countries

Interviewers find the daily mass communication intake of Latin American professional and technical people roughly on a par with, and in some ways broader than, that of comparable North Americans. Domestic and foreign media consumption patterns are analyzed in terms of education and U.S. exposure.