Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Despite growing concerns that children (8–13 years old) tend to avoid the news, the reasons why have received little research attention. Therefore, the current study aims to develop and test a model conceptualizing the relations between children’s news ...
Ming Ebbinkhuijsen +4 more
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Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal ...
Qiuxia Tian
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Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In this global village, easy access to news has resulted in many changes in the preferences and patterns of people for accessing news. Therefore, the present study has attempted to investigate the effects of news relevance, perceived quality, and news ...
Xiao Zhang +3 more
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Nordicom ReviewStudies on news avoidance rely on a range of theories to explain why news avoidance takes place and its potential consequences, and the debates on different ways of measuring news avoidance have been lively.
Lindell Johan +6 more
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A preliminary study of disaster media use as a coping mechanism and the psychological impact of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: The 2014 Sewol ferry disaster is the only South Korean mass casualty incident broadcasted in real time and the first instance of the nation collectively experiencing a disaster through social media. Compared to the large body of literature on
Aekyeong Wong +3 more
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News consumption patterns during the coronavirus pandemic across time and devices: The Cyprus case [PDF]
World of Media, 2022 The coronavirus pandemic sparked a renewed interest in news consumption patterns. When major crises occur, people experience an increasing need for information and sense-making; given the extraordinary impact of this health crisis on people’s social and ...
Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou +1 more
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Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalised avoidance in new contexts [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020 Generalised avoidance behaviours are a common diagnostic feature of anxiety-related disorders and a barrier to affecting changes in anxiety during therapy. However, strategies to mitigate generalised avoidance are under-investigated. Even less attention is given to reducing the category-based generalisation of avoidance.
Marc Patrick Bennett +5 more
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Responses to News Overload in a Non-Partisan Environment: News Avoidance in China
SAGE Open, 2023 Studies conducted in Western democratic countries with privately owned press presenting news from different ideological perspectives have found the phenomenon of news overload causes stress in media users (affective load) and this leads to news avoidance
Tianchang Ni +2 more
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No News is Not Good News: The Implications of News Fatigue and News Avoidance in a Pandemic World [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2022 In an era dominated by a constant flow of grim news, news fatigue is becoming more recognized as a serious concern, even a health risk. Around-the-clock reports on the pandemic can seem unavoidable, along with ongoing coverage of political upheaval ...
Neill Fitzpatrick
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Media and Communication, 2022 This thematic issue includes ten articles that address previous contradictions in research on two main trends in digital democracies: news avoidance and political polarization.
Cornelia Mothes, Jakob Ohme
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