From Lower Disease Risk Perception to Higher News Avoidance: Analysis of News Consumption and Attitude Toward COVID-19 News in Latvia

IF 0.7 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies Pub Date : 2022-04-16 DOI:10.30935/ojcmt/12026

Sandra Murinska, Anda Rožukalne, Ieva Strode

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Abstract

Recognizing that regular information during a pandemic helps societies navigate through a period of insecurity, the aim of this study is to understand how news about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic affects the attitude of media audiences towards news. This study seeks to explain the society’s news consumption and the attitude towards COVID-19 news in Latvia linking it to self-evaluation of the perceived disease risk. A national survey data (September 2020, N=1,005) analysis shows a statistically significant but weak correlation between disease risk self-evaluation and the attitude towards pandemic news. Respondents who rate the risk of the disease as higher and real are more interested in news, consume news to create a sense of security, feel less fatigue towards news, and are less likely to avoid COVID-19 news. Respondents who believe that the risk of illness is low and unreal, are less interested in news, feel more tired, avoid the news more often. © 2022 by authors;licensee OJCMT by Bastas, CY.

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从低疾病风险认知到高新闻回避:拉脱维亚新闻消费和对COVID-19新闻的态度分析

认识到大流行期间的定期信息有助于社会度过不安全时期，本研究的目的是了解关于COVID-19大流行不同方面的新闻如何影响媒体受众对新闻的态度。本研究旨在解释拉脱维亚社会的新闻消费和对COVID-19新闻的态度，将其与感知疾病风险的自我评估联系起来。一项全国调查数据(2020年9月，N= 1005)分析显示，疾病风险自我评价与对大流行新闻的态度之间存在统计学上显著但较弱的相关性。认为该疾病风险较高且真实的受访者对新闻更感兴趣，他们消费新闻以创造安全感，对新闻不那么疲劳，并且不太可能回避COVID-19新闻。认为患病风险低且不真实的受访者，对新闻的兴趣较低，感到更累，更频繁地回避新闻。©2022由作者所有;被许可方OJCMT由Bastas, CY。

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