Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality

被引：11

作者：

Andersen, Kim ^{[1
,2
,4
]}

Shehata, Adam ^{[2
]}

Skovsgaard, Morten ^{[1
]}

Stromback, Jesper ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Southern Denmark, Ctr Journalism, Odense, Denmark

[2] Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

[3] Univ Gothenburg, Dept Journalism Media & Commun, Journalism & Polit Commun, Gothenburg, Sweden

[4] Univ Southern Denmark, Ctr Journalism, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

来源：

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH | 2024年

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

news avoidance; audience research; information utility model; panel data; CURRENT AFFAIRS; MEDIA; ONLINE; CONSUMPTION; EXPOSURE; AVOIDERS; TRUST; INFORMATION; SEEKERS; MODELS;

D O I：

10.1177/00936502231221689

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Can news avoidance be considered a stable personal "trait," adhering to a specific group of consistent news avoiders, or is it rather a volatile "state" reflecting temporal variations in audience practices? Based on a five-wave panel survey collected in Sweden during the coronavirus pandemic, we show that selective avoidance of news about the pandemic varies both between persons, representing consistency, and within persons, representing temporality. Drawing on the information utility model, we additionally show that both dimensions are related to audience preferences, specifically news interest, news media trust, and societal concerns. These results illustrate that the practice of selective news avoidance is not restricted to a specific group of people with limited news use but also represents a more fluid audience behavior of adjusting news consumption patterns in response to individual and contextual changes. However, as the correlates of the two dimensions are similar, the results stress the polarizing potential of news avoidance in democracy.

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