Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality

Figure 1. Amount of news coverage about the coronavirus over time.

Figure 2. Selective news avoidance and seeking across survey waves.

Figure 3. Development in selective news avoidance and seeking over time across news interest, news media trust, and societal concerns.

Selective news avoidance is not only a between-person construct, it also fluctuates within-person over time as people respond to individual and contextual changes, finds @kimandersen.bsky.social, Shehata, Skovsgaard & @jesperstromback.bsky.social in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Does negative news relate to worries about being personally harmed by violent crimes and climate change? Yes, but it depends on whether people prefer mainstream or alternative news media.
 
New study with Djerf-Pierre and Shehata in Mass Communication and Society: doi.org/10.1080/1520...

New pub with Shehata, Skovsgaard and @jesperstromback.bsky.social

Is news avoidance a personal “trait,” adhering to a group of consistent news avoiders, or is it rather a volatile “state” reflecting temporal variations in audience practices? Our answer: both!

Out now in CR: doi.org/10.1177/0093...

New publication in Journal of Communication with @leneaaroe.bsky.social et al.

What explains the journalistic preference for extreme exemplars in news reporting?

Our answer: clickbait oriented editorial policies

Access here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...