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.

摘要

本文比较研究了快速变化的媒体环境中的新闻回避。我们利用在阿根廷、芬兰、以色列、日本和美国对媒体消费者进行的 488 次深度访谈的大型数据集的调查结果。我们的目标是通过提供对新闻回避的驱动因素、实践和模式的全面和细致入微的理解，为新闻回避的研究做出贡献，因为它们发生在各种国家环境中并由其塑造。我们认为，新闻回避不仅受个人特征的影响，而且还表现为特定时间框架和社会文化因素的一部分。我们区分了有意回避新闻的两个驱动因素：认知和情感。不同的国家级背景因素强调了认知驱动因素，