Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI:10.1177/00936502231221689

Kim Andersen, Adam Shehata, Morten Skovsgaard, J. Strömbäck

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Abstract

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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选择性回避新闻：一致性和时间性

回避新闻是否可以被视为一种稳定的个人 "特质"，与特定的新闻回避者群体保持一致，还是说它是一种不稳定的 "状态"，反映了受众行为的时间变化？基于冠状病毒大流行期间在瑞典收集的五波面板调查，我们表明，对有关大流行的新闻的选择性回避在人与人之间（代表一致性）和人与人之间（代表时间性）都是不同的。借鉴信息效用模型，我们还表明这两个维度都与受众偏好有关，特别是新闻兴趣、新闻媒体信任和社会关注。这些结果表明，选择性回避新闻的做法并不局限于对新闻使用有限的特定人群，它还代表了一种更多变的受众行为，即根据个人和环境的变化调整新闻消费模式。然而，由于两个维度的相关性相似，研究结果强调了新闻回避在民主中的两极化潜力。

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来源期刊

ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.