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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/IJoC.2017.13.1.001

The Differences in Factors Influencing Portal News and News Site Application Usages on Smartphones: Focusing on Political Discussion Networks, News Media Use and News Genre Consumption  

Lee, Hyunjoo (Department of Mass Communication, Konkuk University)
Ahn, Jungah (School of Foreign Languages, Hebei University)
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Abstract
The study aims to reveal the differences in the factors influencing portal news and news site application usages on smartphones in regard to political discussion networks, news use across multiple media platforms and news genre consumption. The results demonstrate that those factors affected both types of application usages in a different manner when controlling for demographics. The more participants conversed politics with homogeneous networks, the more they used portal news on smartphones. Conversely, the more political discussion with heterogeneous networks, the more they used news site application on smartphones. The more frequently Internet and mobile phone were employed for news source and the more soft news genre was consumed, the more the portal news application was used. However, the more frequently traditional and social media were employed for news source and the more hard news consumed, the more news site application was used. The findings imply that portal news application users may increase their likelihood of soft news consumption using Internet and mobile phones for political discussion with close social relations, while news site application users may increase their likelihood of hard news consumption using traditional and social media for political discussion with distant social relations.
Keywords
Portal News; News Site Application; Political Discussion Networks; News Media; News Genre; Smartphones;
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