Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

This paper analyzes news use during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking how people balance
between conflicting needs for information and disconnection in an extraordinary situation …

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 …

In this study, we present a novel scale for measuring social media information literacy (SMIL)
that encompasses six sub-dimensions: navigation, curation, appraisal, comprehension …

In a fragmented digital media environment where news is increasingly encountered
passively in social media feeds and via automated mobile alerts, active avoidance of news …

Despite its increasing attention for audiences, journalism studies remains an inherently
production-focused discipline. Consequently, studying the perspective of audiences tends to …

This study uses an inductive, qualitative approach to examine the perspectives of lower-and
middle-class people in the United Kingdom who regularly access little or no professionally …

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 …

This study sought to examine the potential role of news avoidance in belief in COVID-19
misinformation. Using two-wave panel survey data in Singapore, we found that information …

Recent changes in the media environment make it easier than ever for people to actively
shape their news repertoires according to their habits, needs, and preferences. As …