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The online shift in news has changed the way people consume their news. Limited production of print and broadcast news meant consumers had few choices for their news sources, but the Internet has replaced that scarcity with a seemingly limitless set of options. The chapter will frame how citizens used to consume news with how consumption happens now. A primary question to be answered is if the minimal effects thesis of news still holds in today’s fragmented media environment.
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Rackaway, C. (2014). Online News Consumption. In: Communicating Politics Online. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437976_6
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