#SocialMedia #News #Journalism #Media: "Facebook’s exit from news tracks tracks with a move toward TikTok and Youtube, and a worldwide decrease in commenting on and sharing news articles. That’s one of the findings from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in its 2023 Digital News Report, out this week.
RISJ has released a digital news report every year since 2012. This year it surveyed more than 90,000 people in 46 countries about their news consumption, via a YouGov survey as well as qualitative research about subscriptions in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. It’s a big, meaty report. Here are a few of the main findings. And stay tuned because we’ll be running two more pieces by RISJ researchers over the coming week — one on how audience thinking about news algorithms has evolved, and one about how news participation has changed."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/06/worldwide-online-news-is-looking-a-lot-more-like-tiktok-and-a-lot-less-like-shared-articles/
Apparently one of the reasons people are not watching (and I guess sharing / commenting on) the news is the fact people find all the negativity a bad thing, very few 'fun' stories in amongst all the doom, gloom, wars, death, destruction.
