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This study examined the news repertoires of mobile app users across offline, social, and mobile media platforms, the relationships among these channels, and factors influencing the complex dynamics. The results showed that news apps played both a substitutive and a complementary role. While users appreciated news apps as a valuable supplement to offline news sources and social media, the news apps had a greater displacing effect on traditional news outlets than social media. Additionally, the findings indicated that the perceived displacing and complementary effects varied depending on users’ attitudes toward app features, content quality, user perceptions, and motivations for news consumption.
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