Transitions In Marital, Parental, Occupational Status, And Political News Consumption In China

While research on stratified news media consumption has been devoted to age, gender, and education, the life transitions in terms of people's marital, parental, and occupational status have received little attention. This article takes a life-course approach to test Chinese people's behavioral changes in consuming political news via television and the Internet. Analyses of two waves of data from the China Family Panel Studies demonstrate that forming a partnership encourages television watching for political information while the arrival of a child inhibits such usage, whereas having children in the household and transitioning from unemployment to employment foster online political news consumption.