Social media outperforms the paper press for the first time as a source of information in the US
It was only a matter of time, and it has happened. According to a study by Pew Research conducted between July and August 2018, in the United States, social networks win the game for the printed press on paper, for the first time, as the most used source of information. Do not confuse this sorpasso, however, with news websites, whose use among Americans has grown from 28% of the population of 2016 to 33% of 2018. Faced with this growth, the reading of the citizens of the printed newspapers they have dropped from 20% to 18%, while social networks have taken that witness and gone from 18% to 20% of the population. Pwe Research Television continues to reign, although its decline is enormous. From 57% of 2016 it has gone to 49% in 2018, and as we will see now, its position is seriously endangered when the younger audience is taken into account. The generation gap is more evident than ever in the sources of information At a general level, the progression of the different sources as ...