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NEWS CONSUMPTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASES: GERMAN FINDINGS OF THE “REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORT 2019”
Hamburg, 12.06.2019: More than one third of adult Internet users (34%) rely on social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp or YouTube as their source for news. In the group of 18 to 24 year olds, Instagram has taken the lead. However, only ten percent of all Internet users consider social media to be the most important source, and only three percent regard them as the only source. Only 16 percent trust news from social media. These are the findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, for which the Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg prepared the German part of the study. The 2019 study is based on 75,749 respondents from 38 countries.
Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung Hans-Bredow-Institut
Our digital society in 2040
The essay competition “twentyforty – Utopias for a digital society” invites researchers worldwide to describe their visions of a digital society in 20 years from now. Berlin, 16 January 2019 – How will we decide, live…
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