Abstract

This study examines how people tailor their news environment in an era of news abundance. In particular, the researchers attempted to clarify the concept of news tailoring by identifying its structures in the context of digital news consumption. The study’s findings show that news tailoring takes place either through excluding (decreasing the quantity of news to process) or including (lowering the complexity involved in news processing) specific types of news. Specifically, two excluding behaviors (ignoring and filtering) and two including behaviors (customizing and saving) constitute the dimension of news tailoring. The results demonstrate that those who suffer from higher levels of news overload are more likely to adopt two types of exclusionary approaches (ignoring and filtering) and a saving strategy. However, news overload and news customizing were not significantly associated. The implications of these findings are discussed.

摘要

这项研究探讨了人们如何在新闻丰富的时代调整他们的新闻环境。特别是，研究人员试图通过确定数字新闻消费背景下的结构来阐明新闻剪裁的概念。研究结果表明，新闻剪裁要么通过排除（减少要处理的新闻数量）或包括（降低新闻处理的复杂性）特定类型的新闻来实现。具体而言，两种排除行为（忽略和过滤）和两种包含行为（定制和保存）构成了新闻剪裁的维度。结果表明，那些遭受新闻过载程度较高的人更有可能采取两种排除方法（忽略和过滤）和保存策略。然而，新闻过载和新闻定制没有显着相关性。讨论了这些发现的含义。