A generational portrait of online news consumption in Portugal

contributions to the debate on digital literacies

Authors

  • Tiago Lima Quintanilha ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)
  • Miguel Paisana ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)
  • Gustavo Cardoso ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/cp.6808

Keywords:

online consumption of news, digital literacies, digital divide, generational portrait

Abstract

According to data from the latest Reuters Digital News Report Portugal 2019 (n = 2010), we produced a generational portrayal of online news consumption in Portugal that allows us to investigate possible (dis)continuities of the theoretical framework that shapes the discussions on digital literacy and its sub-levels of analysis, namely with regard to the discussion of digital divisions between generational groups.
The conclusion was that in the context of online news consumption in Portugal, young people constitute the generational group that is positioned farthest from the traditionalist profile, while the elderly are still far from being able to integrate the digitalist profile, although data analysis suggests a blurring of the historical differences attributed by the static discourse on digital literacies and digital divide between generational groups regarding the appropriation and use of digital technologies for different purposes.

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Author Biographies

  • Tiago Lima Quintanilha, ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)

    PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at ISCTE-IUL. His research interests focus on media, journalism, and open science. He is a researcher at the Lisbon Communication Observatory (OberCom) and at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), ISCTE-IUL.

  • Miguel Paisana, ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)

    PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at ISCTE-IUL. Works in the social sciences, with emphasis on communication studies, including television, radio, press, and Internet studies. Member of the editorial board of Observatorio since 2015. Currently in the third year of the PhD program in Communication Sciences at ISCTE-IUL.

  • Gustavo Cardoso, ISCTE – IUL, CIES-IUL – Center for Sociological Research and Studies (ESPP)

    Full Professor at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Integrated researcher at CIES-IUL and associate researcher at Le Collège d’Études Mondiales. Editor of the journal Observatorio.

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2020-06-30

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Vol. 15 No. 28 (2020): Number with Special Issues

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SPECIAL ISSUE: News and audiences in the age of new media

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A generational portrait of online news consumption in Portugal: contributions to the debate on digital literacies. (2020). Comunicação Pública, 15(28). https://doi.org/10.4000/cp.6808