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Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication
Digital Journalism ( IF 6.847 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 , DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2021.2016060
Michael Chan 1 , Francis L. F. Lee 1 , Hsuan-Ting Chen 1
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Abstract

Citizens these days feel inundated with news online and are worried about its veracity. This study examines if these concerns in the digital news environment led to greater news avoidance and news authentication behaviors. The relationships were tested across 16 countries by combining individual-level survey data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Report (N = 34,201) with country-level data based on comparative media systems research. Analysis from multilevel modeling showed that concern with fake news was related to news authentication and news fatigue was related to news avoidance. High news fatigue also accentuated the influence of concern with fake news on news avoidance while low fatigue attenuated the relationship. Additional cross-level interactions further contextualized the findings according to media system, showing how the relationships can vary under different conditions of press market, political parallelism, journalistic professionalism, and public service broadcasting. This study demonstrates the utility and importance of considering the contextual role of media system to understand individuals’ perceptions of news they receive online and subsequent news engagement, especially in the context of fake news research because its prevalence and deleterious impact varies across countries.



中文翻译:

避免还是验证?假新闻关注和新闻疲劳对新闻回避和认证的作用的多层次跨国分析

摘要

这些天来,公民感到被网上新闻淹没,并担心其真实性。本研究检验了数字新闻环境中的这些担忧是否会导致更多的新闻回避和新闻认证行为。通过结合路透社研究所数字新闻报道(N = 34,201) 与基于比较媒体系统研究的国家级数据。多层次建模分析表明,对假新闻的关注与新闻认证有关,新闻疲劳与新闻回避有关。高度新闻疲劳也加剧了对假新闻的关注对新闻回避的影响,而低疲劳则减弱了这种关系。额外的跨层次互动进一步根据媒体系统对调查结果进行了背景化,显示了在新闻市场、政治平行性、新闻专业性和公共服务广播的不同条件下,关系如何变化。这项研究证明了考虑媒体系统的上下文角色以了解个人对他们在网上收到的新闻和随后的新闻参与的看法的实用性和重要性,

更新日期:2022-03-16
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