TY - JOUR
T1 - Taking a Break from News
T2 - A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era
AU - Villi, Mikko
AU - Aharoni, Tali
AU - Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren
AU - Boczkowski, Pablo J.
AU - Hayashi, Kaori
AU - Mitchelstein, Eugenia
AU - Tanaka, Akira
AU - Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - News avoidance
KW - audiences
KW - cross-national research
KW - journalism
KW - news consumption
KW - qualitative research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106023566&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1904266
DO - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1904266
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AN - SCOPUS:85106023566
SN - 2167-0811
VL - 10
SP - 148
EP - 164
JO - Digital Journalism
JF - Digital Journalism
IS - 1
ER -
