A1 Journal article (refereed)
Taking a Break from News : A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era (2022)
Villi, M., Aharoni, T., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Boczkowski, P. J., Hayashi, K., Mitchelstein, E., Tanaka, A., & Kligler-Vilenchik, N. (2022). Taking a Break from News : A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era. Digital Journalism, 10(1), 148-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1904266
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Villi, Mikko; Aharoni, Tali; Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren; Boczkowski, Pablo J.; Hayashi, Kaori; Mitchelstein, Eugenia; Tanaka, Akira; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta
Journal or series: Digital Journalism
ISSN: 2167-0811
eISSN: 2167-082X
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 14/05/2021
Volume: 10
Issue number: 1
Pages range: 148-164
Publisher: Routledge
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1904266
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/75758
Abstract
This article comparatively examines news avoidance in a rapidly changing media environment. We utilize findings from a large dataset of 488 in-depth interviews with media consumers, conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the US. We aim to make a contribution to the study of news avoidance by providing a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the drivers, practices, and patterns of news avoidance as they occur in and are shaped by a variety of national contexts. We argue that news avoidance is shaped not only by individual characteristics, but is also manifested and performed as part of specific time frames and socio-cultural factors. We distinguish two drivers of intentional news avoidance: cognitive and emotional. The cognitive drivers are accentuated by distinct country-level contextual factors, whereas the emotional drivers for news avoidance are shared across diverse national contexts.
Keywords: media use; news; media environment; digitalisation; audience; audience reception research; qualitative research; international comparison
Free keywords: News avoidance; news consumption; audiences; qualitative research; cross-national research
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Reporting Year: 2022
JUFO rating: 1
