Cydney Grannan, a first year PhD student in Communication and Media, presented a work-in-progress at the recent AEJMC Southeast Colloquium at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida.
Their project, "News-ness and short form video platforms: How young adults experience news on TikTok & Instagram," uses interviews with 25 young adults to assess how they define news, and how they identify and experience news on TikTok and Instagram, and the discrepancies between young adults' explicit and tacit understandings of news.
