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News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload
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This study investigates the degree of news avoidance during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Based on two panel surveys conducted in the period April–June 2020, this study shows that the increased presence of this behavior, can be explained by negative emotions and feelings the news causes by citizens. Moreover, news avoidance indeed has a positive effect on perceived well-being. These findings point to an acting balance for individual news consumers. In a pandemic such as Covid-19 news consumers need to be informed, but avoiding news is sometimes necessary to stay mentally healthy.
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Metadata
- Authors
- de Bruin, K., de Haan, Y., Vliegenthart, R., Kruikemeier, S., & Boukes, M.
- Affiliations
- Research Group Journalism, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Venue
- Digital Journalism
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-08-06
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1286-1302
- ISSN
- 2167-0811 (ISSN-L)
- 2167-082X
- OpenAlex
- W3187445336
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 5
- FWCI
- 34.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Digital Journalism (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Keywords
- news avoidance, COVID-19 pandemic, information overload, news consumption, negative emotions, perceived well-being, mental health, news consumers
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