SAGGI Media digitali, atteggiamenti e opinioni degli italiani su un sistema dell’informazione che cambia di Fabio Giglietto, Lella Mazzoli, Federico Montanari, Giulia Raimondi PROBLEMI DELL’INFORMAZIONE – ANNO XXXIX, N. 2, AGOSTO 2014 Digital media, attitudes and opinions of Italians on a changing news media system Based on telephone interviews with a representative sample of the Italian adult population (18 +), the survey NEWS-ITALY has investigated – since 2011 – the views and preferences of Italian news consumers. The article presents the results of a research that, drawing on the data of NEWS-ITALY 2014 survey (N = 1,013), has focused on the relation- ship between different ways of consuming news in digital format and the opinions and attitudes of respondents regarding their search and consumption of information. More specifically, through a comparison between different regression models, we were able to assess the role played by the use of internet, smartphone/tablet and social networking sites for getting information, in influencing Italians’ opinions regarding their experience with news. The analysis shows a significant effect of the use of the internet for getting news on respondents’ opinions regarding their experience of information overload, their encounter with news as a result of relatives and friends’ suggestions and their preference for get- ting news form sources contradicting their own opinions and views. Keywords: news, internet, information overload, mobile, sns Introduzione L’ecologia dei media sta cambiando. E sta cambiando il sistema dell’in- formazione. Il progressivo affermarsi di internet e dei media digitali e