ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the relational affordances of news for smartphones, laptops, or on broadcast and cable television, where we find not one object or actor, but old and new media devices and multiple actors involved in news relations. It explores news relations in inter-generational households, where there is shared access and distribution of news, e.g. through family accounts for Wi-Fi and cable television, and where news can be a topic of conversation in trusted news groups. The chapter analyses how the parameters of motivations, intensities and consequences for engagement work together. Negating news, from poor quality in journalism, lack of verifiable sources and government control of content in these two countries, is a means of voicing concerns regarding various forms of news and practices of knowing.
