From Politics to Entertainment: Exploring “News Finds Me” Perceptions Across News Topics

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-10-19 DOI:10.1177/20563051251382442

Afrooz Mosallaei, Luxuan Wang, Katherine Ognyanova

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Abstract

The “News Finds Me” (NFM) perception captures the common belief that one can stay informed without actively seeking news. This study aims to extend previous research by comparing the widely used general NFM measure with topic-specific perceptions of entertainment, sports, politics, COVID-19, and climate change news. We assess the strength, predictors, and outcomes of NFM perceptions across those different thematic domains. Our findings show that NFM perceptions are stronger for soft news (entertainment and sports) compared to hard news (politics, COVID-19, climate change). In addition, interest in a news topic is associated with lower NFM perceptions for hard news and higher perceptions for soft news. While the traditional NFM measure reflects “News Finds Me” perceptions in politics and COVID-19 well, it is not as effective in capturing perceptions of climate change and soft news. Our results emphasize the need to explore different news genres to better understand news consumption beliefs and behaviors.

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从政治到娱乐：探索跨新闻主题的“新闻找到我”观念

“新闻找到我”（NFM）的观念抓住了一种普遍的信念，即一个人可以在不主动寻找新闻的情况下保持消息灵通。本研究旨在通过比较广泛使用的一般NFM测量与娱乐，体育，政治，COVID-19和气候变化新闻的主题特定感知来扩展先前的研究。我们评估了这些不同主题领域中NFM感知的强度、预测因素和结果。我们的研究结果表明，与硬新闻（政治、COVID-19、气候变化）相比，软新闻（娱乐和体育）对NFM的看法更强。此外，对新闻主题的兴趣与硬新闻较低的NFM感知和软新闻较高的NFM感知相关。虽然传统的NFM指标很好地反映了“新闻找到我”对政治和COVID-19的看法，但它在捕捉气候变化和软新闻的看法方面并不那么有效。我们的研究结果强调需要探索不同的新闻类型，以更好地了解新闻消费信念和行为。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.