Instagram is traditionally a platform to share lifestyle content, but for millennials and Generation Z, it has become the main source of the latest news.
New figures have revealed that in Germany, about 38% of 18-to-24-year-olds used Instagram alone to access the news. Figures reached even higher levels in Argentina, where about 49% of young people used IG as their news source.
Researchers said young people turned to social media because of the mistrust of mainstream media, but this trend is not without its dangers. Content-creation-for-all has democratized news, but it remains an imperfect system with biases, fake news, and polarized viewpoints.
友善讓你懂|解說:
原本 Instagram 是分享生活近況的平台,但對千禧世代和 Z 世代而言,卻逐漸成為主要新聞資訊來源管道。
最新調查數據顯示,德國 18 至 24 歲的年輕族群中,有高達 38% 只透過 Instagram 來閱讀新聞。而在阿根廷這個情況更顯著,有高達 49% 年輕人把 Instagram 當作獲取新聞資訊的管道。
研究者認為,年輕世代之所以轉向社群媒體,即是出於對主流媒體的不信賴,但這趨勢並非全然無害。為什麼呢?因為雖然「大眾創造內容」趨勢使新聞民主化,但類似社群媒體這樣的平台目前還不是個完美機制,上頭也充滿了各式各樣的偏見、假新聞和兩極化觀點。
輕鬆帶著走|學習:
今天來學一個英文中常見、但中文翻譯卻有很多種的單字。access 如果作為名詞,是
「管道、通道、方法、途徑」的意思;而作為動詞,則是「接觸、獲取、取得」等等的意思,
例句:Our goal is to give users easy access to the necessary information. 我們的目標,是讓使用者可以輕鬆地取得所需資訊。
本篇其他相關單字,介紹如下: