How Do University Students Receive, Read, Find, Share, and Store News? A Survey Study on Mobile News Behavior

美國大學生如何接收、閱讀、查找、分享與儲存新聞？行動新聞資訊行為調查研究

吳京恩(Kyong Eun Oh) ； 唐蓉(Rong Tang)

《圖書資訊學刊》 16卷1期 (2018/06) Pp. 1-21

https://doi.org/10.6182/jlis.201806_16(1).001

摘要

Mobile news research has primarily focused on mobile information needs as well as mobile news information searching behavior. In this study, we investigated an array of mobile news activities (receiving, reading, finding, sharing, and storing news) and cross-examined differential patterns and habits associated with these activities. One hundred and eleven undergraduate and graduate students in the US responded to a screener survey, and 63 subsequently participated in an online survey and reported in detail their mobile news consumption habits. Our results showed that participants’ behavioral patterns for receiving, reading, and finding news differed from their sharing and storing activities. Not only are there significantly higher frequencies in receiving, reading, and finding news, but participants rated themselves as less proficient and satisfied regarding their ability to store and share news. This study's findings, including students' own comments on their limited ability in news keeping as well as such a functionality being overlooked by mobile app developers, will advance our knowledge of university students' mobile news information behavior and provide potentially meaningful design recommendations for mobile news applications.

關鍵字

Mobile News Information Behavior ； News ； Information Behavior ； Smartphones ； University Students

並列摘要

行動新聞研究主要關注行動資訊需求，以及行動新聞資訊搜尋行為。本研究調查一系列行動新聞活動（接收、閱讀、查找、分享和儲存新聞），並交叉檢查與這些活動相關之差異模式和習慣。111名美國大學生和研究生參與篩選調查，其中63名參與後續線上調查並詳細回報他們的行動新聞消費習慣。研究結果顯示，參與者的接收、閱讀和查找新聞的 行為模式與其分享和儲存新聞的模式不同。參與者接收、閱讀和查找新聞的頻率非常高，但認為自己對儲存和分享新聞的能力不夠熟練和滿意。研究結果（包括學生自己對新聞保存能力有限的評論以及行動應用程式開發人員忽視新聞儲存的功能）將增進對大學生行動新聞資訊行為的了解，並為行動新聞提供潛在且具意義之設計建議應用。

並列關鍵字

手機新聞資訊行為 ； 新聞 ； 資訊行為 ； 智慧型手機 ； 大學生

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