The bar chart illustrates the percentage of people using platforms to get news daily among five different age groups in 2011.
Overall, it is clear that the shares of people using radio recorded the highest in all other age groups, except in the adolescents. By contrast, the figure for microblogging was the lowest in almost every age group. Notably, there was a similar trend in the number of individuals who used social networking in the youngest group and the subsequent one.
It can be witnessed that the proportion of people getting news from the radio in the age group 18-29 made up the highest, over 90%, which was compared to that of the youngest one, just reached nearly a half, at 40%. Specifically, those who took the information from social networking in the adolescent and younger groups peaked at the same shares, at 80%. The percentage of those who used microblogging in these two groups was low, fluctuating from 20 to 30%.
Turning to the other three age groups, the rates of people using the radio in these three groups to get news daily were the largest, peaking at over 80% compared to the two other types of media. Social networking ranked second; the share in the oldest group was half compared of the middle-aged group. Regarding microblogging, which was the type of media that recorded the fewest people using, just from 10 to 20%.