ABSTRACT

The well-known “high-choice news avoidance thesis” and the alternative “network structure perspective” stipulate somewhat conflicting expectations about news consumption in today’s digital media systems. Based on annual survey data from Norway, the article examines news avoidance from 1997–2016, a period when digitalization processes transformed the media environment. Results show that news avoidance increased only marginally. The decrease in use of traditional media is largely compensated for by online news. However, news avoidance is increasingly polarized along educational lines, and it is unclear to what degree online news consumption equals traditional news media consumption in qualitative terms.

摘要

众所周知的“高选择新闻回避论点”和另一种“网络结构观点”规定了当今数字媒体系统中对新闻消费的期望有些矛盾。本文基于挪威的年度调查数据，考察了1997-2016年的新闻回避情况，当时数字化进程改变了媒体环境。结果表明，新闻回避仅略有增加。传统新闻使用的减少在很大程度上由在线新闻所弥补。但是，新闻回避在教育方面越来越两极化，而且从质量的角度来看，在线新闻的消费量与传统新闻媒体的消费量在多大程度上尚不清楚。