“News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure”: Understanding the practices of incidental news consumption on social media

By Pablo Boczkowski, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Mora Matassi. New Media & Society, 2018

361 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. María Celeste Wagner
2. Anna Sophie Kümpel
3. Pablo Boczkowski
4. Edson C. Tandoc
5. Nicholas A. Diakopoulos
6. Michael Koliska

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Anna Sophie Kümpel
2. Pablo Boczkowski

In Sociology and Political Science

1. María Celeste Wagner
2. Anna Sophie Kümpel
3. Pablo Boczkowski
4. Michele A. Willson

Citations in the corpus

• The Reception of Fake News: The Interpretations and Practices That Shape the Consumption of Perceived Misinformation (2019, background): “Scholarship has found an increase in incidental news consumption as a by-product of spending time on social media (Boczkowski et al. 2018; Fletcher and Nielsen 2017; Gil de Zuniga, Weeks and Ardevol-Abreu 2017).”
• The Issue Takes It All? (2019, background): “Such incidental news exposure is a prevalent online phenomenon, particularly among SNS users (Fletcher and Nielsen 2017; Boczkowski, Mitchelstein, and Matassi 2018; Bergström and Belfrage 2018), and has implications both for general news-seeking behaviors (as reflected in the rise of perceptions…”