United States users' interaction with digital information on their mobile devices

By Michael47 and Elizabeth14

What will be discussed throughout this post
Our chosen topic is how the United States, in comparison to other different countries, accesses the news. How the United States' interest in the news differs from other countries. How age can be a factor in influencing both the interest in news and how often a person accesses the news.

United States ranked as the fifth country with the most interest in news

The following graph, in the research article, shows the diversity of interests in the news across different countries. Our main focus is on the United States of America. By looking at the graph, we can infer that the United States is in the fifth place of the most interested country in news with a percentage of 68. While the top most interested country, out of the ten countries shown, is Brazil with 87 percent. An underlying factor is the cause of this imbalance, and it may be age of persons in each country which was also mentioned in the research article.

Interest in news increases, in every country around the world, as age increases

The following simple graph, in the research article, shows the difference in interest in the news changes as age varies. From the graph, which shows the overall average amongst all the ten countries, we can infer that there is a positive relationship between age and the amount of interest in the news. As a person’s age increases, their percentage in amount of interest in the news increases as well. This graph helps emphasize that age does have an overall effect on a person and how interested the person will be into looking for what is happening in the news will change over time.

Older people prefer to get their news through the television, while younger people prefer online platforms

The following graph, in the research article, shows the preferred platform (i.e. the mode) through which people of different age brackets choose to view their news. The percentages measure the average amongst all ten countries. By looking at the graph we can infer that older people (i.e. people over the age of 55) like to hear or see the news through the television, while in comparison younger people (i.e. people between the ages of 18-24) prefer to hear or see their news online. Again, the graph helps emphasize that the research found age is an important factor that affects our views on the best way to hear/see news. And affects the amount of interest we have in being informed on what is happening in our country.

People in different countries, besides the U.S., access news mostly through television, like to receive news as stories/lists, on Facebook, and have preference of reading news in text format

The following mixture of graphs, from the research article, focus on describing different forms in which countries around the world receive their news. And in the ways these people prefer to view the news. The graph shown on the first slide shows how both smartphone and tablet users from different countries, together, like to view television news as an outside source on the news versus radio news. The second graph shows how the majority of people in the United States like to receive their weekly news as stories. The third graph shows the average people amongst all countries prefer to receive their news via Facebook in comparison to other social networks (i.e. YouTube, Twitter, etc.). And the last graph describes different countries’ preferences on reading/watching news. The United States has a major preference to read news via text.