Online News Paying Intent Antecedents: The Culture of Free, Fairness of Having to Pay for News, and the Moderating Role of Political Interest

Manuel Goyanes, Rebecca Scheffauer, Tamás Tóth, Márton Demeter, Homero Gil de Zúñiga

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Abstract

Drawing on a Spanish representative two-wave panel survey, this study examines the role predicting the intent for paying for news of (a) a culture of free mindset, and (b) pay for news injustice. Findings suggest that both variables negatively predict citizens’ intent to pay for public affairs information. Furthermore, the study also advances the moderating role of political interest on these effects, which increases the intentions to pay for news, particularly for those who report low levels of culture of free mindset and pay for news injustice.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalJournalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Communication

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