03850cam a2200505 i 4500 23244928 BJBSDDR 20260205120908.0 ta 230726s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 2023027784 9780231205191 (trade paperback) 0231205198 (trade paperback) 9780231555883 (ebook) 23244928 DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc PN 4784 T644a 2024 302.23 Toff, Benjamin 46946 Avoiding the news : reluctant audiences for journalism / Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. New York : Columbia University Press, 2024. ix, 272 pages ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Reuters Institute global journalism series Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgments1. Is Ignorance Bliss?2. Who Are Consistent News Avoiders?3. Why News Avoiders Say They Don’t Use News4. Identities: How Our Relationships to Communities Shape News Avoidance5. Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance6. Infrastructures: How Media Platforms and Pathways Shape News Avoidance7. News for All the People?Appendix A: Studying News Avoidance Using Interpretive MethodsAppendix B: Summary Tables Describing Study ParticipantsAppendix C: Interview Protocols for In-Depth InterviewingNotesIndex "A small but growing number of individuals in the West identify themselves as news avoiders and are turning away from traditional news organizations. For news avoiders, news as reported by the mainstream press is not worth their time or emotional energy, not relevant to their lives, too partisan, or not to be trusted. Even in the last few years as news has seemed particularly pressing, people are increasingly avoiding it as revealed in a recent surveys. In Avoiding News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism, Rasmus Nielsen, Ruth Palmer, and Benjamin Toff examine the reasons behind news avoidance, its impact, and what, if anything, can be done about it. Their work is based on interviews and surveys with more than 160 news avoiders in Spain, the UK, and the United States. The authors examine how news avoiders get information - social media, friends and family, alternative news sources - and how they develop "folk theories" about how news organizations work. They also consider the ways in which race, class, and gender shape people's ideas about news and how news avoidance affects already disadvantaged communities. The authors conclude that news avoidance is a problem for civil society and has contributed to the recent rise of reactionary populism in the West. To confront the problem of news avoidance a variety of efforts are needed that not only change the content of the news but seek to understand and address individuals' habits and views about news organizations"-- Provided by publisher. News avoidance (Psychology) News audiences. Journalism. Periodismo 1324 Mass media. Medios de comunicación 5015 Palmer, Ruth, 1979- 42139 Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis, 1980- 42138 Online version : Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis. Avoiding the news New York : Columbia University Press, 2023 9780231555883 (DLC) 2023027785 Reuters Institute global journalism series 46947 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123515 123515 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-05-21 0 PN 4784 T644a 2024 00000192806 2025-05-21 00:00:00 1 2025-05-21 BK