News avoidance or curation? Explicating the psychological process in news consumption on Facebook

IF 4.3 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

New Media & Society Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI:10.1177/14614448251351280

Biying Wu-Ouyang, Shuning Lu, Hsuan-Ting Chen

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Abstract

This study investigates how people employ different news consumption strategies in the personalized but overloaded information environment. Specifically, we examine the psychological mechanisms of news curation and news avoidance through fear of missing out (FoMO) and news overload. An autoregressive analysis of two-wave panel data ( N = 834) shows that news use indirectly affects both news consumption strategies first through FoMO and then through news overload on Facebook. More importantly, the indirect effect occurs only for those who engage in cross-cutting discussion at high and middle but not low levels. This finding addresses a classic dilemma: despite growing concern over increased news consumption, social media users are able to strike a balance between staying informed through news curation and protecting themselves from being overloaded by news avoidance. However, these strategies can be biased because users tend to personalize their information intake after encountering disagreeing viewpoints.

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新闻回避还是新闻策划？解读Facebook新闻消费的心理过程

本研究探讨了在个性化但超载的信息环境中，人们如何采用不同的新闻消费策略。具体而言，我们通过错失恐惧（FoMO）和新闻过载来研究新闻策划和新闻回避的心理机制。对两波面板数据（N = 834）的自回归分析表明，新闻使用首先通过FoMO间接影响新闻消费策略，然后通过Facebook上的新闻过载间接影响新闻消费策略。更重要的是，间接影响只发生在高层和中层进行交叉讨论的人身上，而不发生在低层。这一发现解决了一个经典的困境：尽管人们越来越担心新闻消费的增加，但社交媒体用户能够在通过新闻管理保持信息灵通和保护自己免受新闻回避的过载之间取得平衡。然而，这些策略可能会有偏差，因为用户在遇到不同意的观点后往往会个性化他们的信息摄入。

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来源期刊

New Media & Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

8.00%

发文量

274

期刊介绍： New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice.