What Does it Take to Sustain a News Habit? The Role of Civic Duty Norms and a Connection to a "News Community" Among News Avoiders in the UK and Spain

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dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorToff, Benjamin
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-03T16:08:50Z
dc.date.available2025-04-03T16:08:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-15
dc.description.abstractWhy do some people maintain a news habit while others avoid news altogether? To explore that question, we put findings from an interview-based study of news avoiders in the UK and Spain into dialogue with past research on factors found to shape news consumption. We found that news avoiders saw news as having limited informational benefits and high costs in terms of time, emotional energy, and mental effort. They also did not see consuming news as a civic duty to be pursued despite the costs, nor did they have strong ties to communities that highly valued news consumption. This meant they had few social incentives to return to news habitually and that connections between distant-seeming topics in the news and immediate concerns were rarely reinforced. We conclude that group-level social factors play an understudied but important role in shaping news avoidance.
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dc.description.urihttps://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12252
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dc.identifier.citationPalmer, R., & Toff, B. (2020). What does it take to sustain a news habit? The role of civic duty norms and a connection to a" news community" among news avoiders in the UK and Spain. International Journal of Communication, 14, 20.
dc.identifier.issn1932-8036
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3702
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of Communication
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final1653
dc.page.initial1634
dc.page.total20
dc.publisherUSC Annenberg
dc.relation.departmentMarketing & Communication
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed
dc.subject.keywordJournalism
dc.subject.keywordAudience research
dc.subject.keywordNews avoidance
dc.subject.keywordNews consumption
dc.subject.keywordQualitative interviews
dc.subject.keywordComparative research
dc.subject.keywordPolitical efficacy
dc.titleWhat Does it Take to Sustain a News Habit? The Role of Civic Duty Norms and a Connection to a "News Community" Among News Avoiders in the UK and Spain
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dc.volume.number14
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