Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind intentional and unintentional news avoidance
Abstract: In the light of a vast political information ‘buffet’, so-called news-avoiders stay away from the news for indefinite periods of time. Recent research suggests that news avoidance can be intentional or unintentional. However, research has mostly focused on one form of news avoidance or has not differentiated at all. Based on survey data, this study (a) identifies and compares motivations for intentional and unintentional avoidance and (b) investigates drivers of different news avoidance motives. Findings suggest that, overall, avoidance is rooted in the preference for other pastimes, with intentional avoiders also being tired of news and seeing it as too negative, biased, and unreliable. Further, different motives are driven by specific characteristics: Political knowledge and internal efficacy relate to ‘cognitive’ motives, empathy, and being negativity-prone to ‘emotional’ motives, while external efficacy relates to ‘political’ motives.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind intentional and unintentional news avoidance ; volume:48 ; number:4 ; year:2023 ; pages:563-587 ; extent:25
Communications ; 48, Heft 4 (2023), 563-587 (gesamt 25)
- Creator
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Gorski, Lea C.
- DOI
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10.1515/commun-2021-0084
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023110813031747446322
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:51 AM CEST
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