Exploring digital divides in older adults’ news consumption

Bergström, Annika

Exploring digital divides in older adults’ news consumption

Nordicom Review

Volume 41 (2020): Issue 2 (June 2020)

By:

Annika Bergström

Open Access

|Dec 2020

Figures & Tables

Regression analysis, digital news use, 2014–2018 (OLS, beta coefficients)

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Morning paper, web
age 66–85	−0.006	−0.005	−0.005	−0.013^*	−0.018^***
sex	0.188^**	0.053	0.278^***	0.214^***	0.204^**
education	0.101^**	0.098^**	0.113^***	0.197^***	0.187^***
political interest	0.107^*	0.185^***	0.186^***	0.193^***	0.217^***
newspaper reading	−0.081^***	−0.059^***	−0.085^***	−0.057^***	−0.029^**
radio news	0.051^**	0.051^**	0.047^**	0.055^***	0.076^***
television news	0.018	0.014	0.062^**	0.049^*	0.064^**
Internet habits	0.185^***	0.197^***	0.236^***	0.207^***	0.245^***
R²	0.14	0.14	0.18	0.16	0.19

Radio news, web
age 66–85	−0.007	0.003	−0.001	0.006	−0.004
sex	0.167^**	0.076	0.132^**	0.011	0.224^***
education	0.075^*	0.018	0.082^***	0.084^***	0.086^***
political interest	0.122^**	0.161^***	0.129^***	0.154^***	0.189^***
newspaper reading	−0.078^***	−0.034^**	−0.065^***	−0.049^***	−0.064^***
radio news	0.014	0.100^***	0.134^***	0.131^***	0.169^***
television news	0.055^*	0.005	−0.011	0.044^*	0.023
Internet habits	0.099^***	0.070^***	0.079^***	0.115	0.120^***
R²	0.06	0.07	0.10	0.11	0.13

Television news, web
age 66–85	−0.007	0.012	0.003	0.014^*	0.014^*
sex	0.167^*	0.057	0.163^**	0.181^***	0.168^**
education	0.075^*	0.028	0.121^***	0.113^***	0.090^**
political interest	0.122^**	0.172^***	0.089^*	0.174^***	0.212^***
newspaper reading	−0.078^***	−0.063^***	−0.108^***	−0.094^***	−0.109^***
radio news	0.014	0.027	0.056^***	0.006	0.034^*
television news	0.055^*	0.073^**	0.085^***	0.170^***	0.130^***
Internet habits	0.099^***	0.134^***	0.137^***	0.194^***	0.225^***
R²	0.06	0.07	0.09	0.12	0.13

News in social media
age 66–85	−0.016^***	−0.020^***	−0.028^***	−0.036^***	−0.371^***
sex	−0.083	−0.158^***	−0.131^*	−0.257^***	−0.038^***
education	0.054^*	0.055^*	0.087^***	0.024	0.070^***
political interest	0.160^***	0.136^***	0.154^***	0.146^***	0.170^**
newspaper reading	−0.043^***	−0.039^***	−0.080^***	−0.034^**	−0.046^***
radio news	0.009	0.020	0.021	0.019	0.030^*
television news	−0.011	0.021	0.010	0.042^*	0.049^*
Internet habits	0.073^***	0.094	0.146^***	–	0.154^***
R²	0.09	0.10	0.13	0.12	0.13

n	2,004	2,474	2,914	3,136	3,211

Use of web version among frequent, sporadic, and non-users of print and broadcast news, 2014–2018 (per cent)

	66–70 yrs	71–75 yrs	76–80 yrs	81–85 yrs
Morning papers in print
frequent users	19 (2,868)	17 (2,904)	13 (1,877)	13 (1,096)
sporadic users	23 (597)	18 (474)	12 (243)	11 (151)
non-users	28 (1,324)	24 (1,051)	15 (607)	10 (410)

Radio broadcast news
frequent users	13 (2,991)	14 (2,834)	11 (1,750)	12 (1,007)
sporadic users	3 (1,044)	3 (794)	2 (430)	4 (246)
non-users	3 (737)	2 (777)	4 (541)	2 (404)

Television broadcast news
frequent users	18 (3,827)	18 (3,788)	16 (2,357)	16 (1,425)
sporadic users	10 (641)	7 (349)	9 (148)	10 (63)
non-users	10 (321)	8 (270)	9 (222)	9 (169)

News use of different sources, 2014–2018 (per cent, Kendall's Tau-c)

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Morning paper, print
Average (16–85 yrs)	49	43	39	33	30
66–70 yrs	70	66	60	53	52
71–75 yrs	74	67	68	62	60
76–80 yrs	78	72	68	68	64
81–85 yrs	73	72	67	67	58
Kendall's Tau-c	0.05	0.05^*	0.07^***	0.12^***	0.07^***

Morning paper, web
Average (16–85 yrs)	18	20	23	23	24
66–70 yrs	16	18	23	23	27
71–75 yrs	10	16	19	20	24
76–80 yrs	12	11	12	14	16
81–85 yrs	8	12	13	13	14
Kendall's Tau-c	−0.06^***	−0.06^***	−0.10^***	−0.09^***	−0.11^***

Radio news, broadcast
Average (16–85 yrs)	41	44	43	42	42
66–70 yrs	60	63	63	62	63
71–75 yrs	60	65	65	66	64
76–80 yrs	64	65	64	62	66
81–85 yrs	58	56	66	60	62
Kendall's Tau-c	0.00	−0.02	0.02	−0.01	0.01

Radio news, web
Average (16–85 yrs)	6	7	8	9	11
66–70 yrs	6	7	8	11	13
71–75 yrs	5	9	9	11	12
76–80 yrs	7	6	8	10	9
81–85 yrs	7	8	7	9	11
Kendall's Tau-c	0.01	0.00	−0.01	−0.01	−0.03^*

Television news, broadcast
Average (16–85 yrs)	53	52	52	48	52
66–70 yrs	83	82	79	90	77
71–75 yrs	87	88	86	85	85
76–80 yrs	90	86	85	87	86
81–85 yrs	84	84	85	88	88
Kendall's Tau-c	0.04^*	0.02	0.06^***	0.07^***	0.09^***

Television news, web
Average (16–85 yrs)	9	11	12	15	18
66–70 yrs	10	13	16	19	22
71–75 yrs	9	14	14	20	23
76–80 yrs	12	10	13	19	19
81–85 yrs	10	14	13	16	21
Kendall's Tau-c	0.01	−0.00	−0.03^*	−0.01	−0.02

News on social network sites
Average (16–85 yrs)	22	25	32	33	32
66–70 yrs	6	9	15	15	16
71–75 yrs	4	5	9	12	12
76–80 yrs	1	4	6	6	7
81–85 yrs	1	1	2	3	4
Kendall's Tau-c	−0.04^***	−0.06^***	−0.10^***	−0.09^***	−0.10^***

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0021 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 163 - 177

Published on: Dec 1, 2020

Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 times per year

Keywords:

news consumption,

older adults,

representative survey,

replacement,

complementarity

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Communication science,

Mass communication,

Public and political communication

© 2020 Annika Bergström, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
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