"MORE COMPREHENSIBLE, NOT SO POLITICAL" - INSIGHTS INTO THE NEEDS AND USAGE PRACTICES OF LOW-INFORMATION-ORIENTED YOUNG PEOPLE
More and more adolescents and young adults do not find their interests and concerns reflected in the traditional news media. Instead, social media offerings play an important role for this group of young people. They stay up to date almost exclusively via casual information contacts on TikTok and YouTube, preferring entertaining content and pursuing individual interests that they also talk about among their friends.