ABSTRACT
Along with other forms of media content, news today tends to flow smoothly between different types of platforms, as well as between users. News outlets distribute their material through multiple channels, and media users may access news material by means of different platforms, from different places and while on the move. News consumption is now “unfettered by wires and cables”, freed from previously quite wellrestricted, space-time constraints (Hemment 2005, 32), and news is accessed in the “interstices” of the scheduled and routinized activities throughout the course of the day (Dimmick, Feaster, and Hoplamazian 2010). Altogether, technological convergence and
altered dynamics of content circulation change the ways in which news is consumed, in terms of how individuals navigate and orient themselves through representational spaces and flows, and how their media practices amalgamate with other activities in everyday life. What we are witnessing is thus more than a technological and representational transition; it is a multi-layered spatial transition that can be described as a shift from mass media textures to transmedia textures (Jansson 2013a).
