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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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Communications, 2022 Abstract Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic engagement in society, a void ...
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Understanding News Avoidance in Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review
Religion and Social CommunicationIn the age of digital media, news avoidance behaviour is continually increasing. This behaviour has brought new challenges for society and democracy. Research on news avoidance has recently experienced a surge, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
Annapurna Sharma, Mahesh Kumar Meena
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The Onset of Habituation Effects
European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2021 While extraordinary events like pandemics may prompt an increase in information-seeking behaviour, such trends are unlikely to be sustainable. Over time, issue fatigue/overdose is expected to set in. This study employed generalised additive mixed models (
Viorela Dan, Hans-Bernd Brosius
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News Avoidance and Media Trust: Exploring Intentional Public Disengagement in Egypt’s Media System
Journalism and MediaThis study examines news avoidance behaviors in Egypt’s media system, addressing a significant gap in understanding how audiences disengage from news content in non-Western contexts. Using a mixed-methods approach combining focus groups (n = 16), surveys
Ahmed Taher, Farah Ismail
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Fake medical news: avoiding pitfalls and perils [PDF]
Family Medicine and Community Health, 2019 In the present-day digital world, it is challenging to function comprehensively, given our increasing reliance on the internet, which has touched every aspect of our lives, including healthcare.
Amar Shireesh Kanekar, Avinash Thombre
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KōtuituiThis study explores selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Existing research suggests that selective news avoidance rates are high in Aotearoa New Zealand (Myllylahti M, Treadwell G. 2023.
Alex Beattie, John Kerr, Richard Arnold
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International Journal of Communication, 2022 This study examines selection bias on social media during the 2019 Lebanon protests. Based on the theoretical concepts of selective avoidance and selective sharing, the survey of a nationally representative probability sample found selective avoidance to
Claudia Kozman, Jad Melki
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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Discourses of Fear in Online News Media: Implications for Perceived Risk of Travel
Tourism and Hospitality, 2023 This paper analyzes the role of Canadian online news media in framing travel during the pandemic. The article applies Altheide’s concept of the problem frame to reflect how news media contribute to the emergence of a highly rationalized problem that, in ...
Kelley A. McClinchey, Frederic Dimanche
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