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We analyze a set of 35 autoethnographies of news encounters, created by students in New Zealand. These comprise rich descriptions of the news sources, modalities, topics of interest, and news ‘routines’ by which the students keep in touch with friends and maintain awareness of personal, local, national, and international events. We explore the implications for these insights into news behavior for further research to support digital news systems.
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Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M., Hinze, A., Bowen, J. (2015). Digital News Resources: An Autoethnographic Study of News Encounters. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_7
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